Misbegotten

Quick meaning: Misbegotten is an adjective meaning (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.

Meaning

(of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
2. (by extension) Bad; worthless.
3. past participle of misbeget
4. (loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
5. (obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.

Example Sentences

But as the Deuill would haue it, three miſ-be-gotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene, came at my Back, […]

There was the guy I spent a misbegotten night with who said he'd call me and never did but came to the party anyway, and I felt primed for a confrontation.

"Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"

By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

Synonyms for misbegotten

Depending on context, synonyms include spurious, natural, misbegot, illegitimate, bastardly.

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