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misbegotten
(of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
💬 Quotations
“Foolish woman!” responded the physician, half coldly, half soothingly. “What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good, and were it my child—yea, mine own, as well as thine! I could do no better for it.”
(by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
(by extension) Bad; worthless.
(obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
(loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.