Misbegot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Misbegot is an adjective meaning simple past of misbeget.
Meaning
simple past of misbeget.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
Example Sentences
1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords, but who’s to say this love was misbegot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots
Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling Upon the head of valour; which indeed Is valour misbegot and came into the world When sects and factions were newly born:
1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538, A Man defective born or misbegot To be therfor a Man deny wee not, Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can Of attributes essentiall to a Man.
Synonyms for misbegot
Depending on context, synonyms include spurious, natural, misbegotten, illegitimate, bastardly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misbegotten, bastardly, bastard, illegitimate, spurious, natural.
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