Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Offensive Born to parents not married to each other.
- adjective Having an improper basis or origin; ill-conceived.
- adjective Deserving of contempt.
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- adjective
born out ofwedlock ;illegitimate - adjective
ill-conceived
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective born out of wedlock
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Examples
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
Home 2008
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
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The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during the campaign this year to pull forces out of what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.
Army Times - News 2008
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly committed to send three or four additional brigades, creating a total of 20,000 more troops, into Afghanistan in 2009, as his new administration shifts focus away from what he's called the misbegotten Iraq war.
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One kind of misbegotten movie derided by C. B.'s possee has gotta be George Cukor's lugubrious My Fair Lady, also shown on TCM this weekend.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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Kanshin would have thought that this "Hadanelith" was some kind of misbegotten sport, created from a normal man by the mad magic, if he had not once seen the Emperor's kestra-chern, The Silver Veil, with his own eyes.
The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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