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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misbegotten
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a misbegotten diplomatic mission
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed, many changes introduced by management in the post-cold-war years read like a catalogue of the misbegotten.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misbegotten

Misbegot \Mis`be*got"\, Misbegotten \Mis`be*got"ten\, p. a.

  1. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious. ``Valor misbegot.''
    --Shak.

  2. Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out; ill-conceived.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misbegotten

"bastard, illegitimate," 1550s, past participle adjective from obsolete misbeget (c.1300); see mis- (1) + beget.

Wiktionary
misbegotten

a. 1 (context of a person English) (l/en born Born) out of wedlock; (l/en: illegitimate). 2 (context by extension figuratively English) (l/en ill-conceived Ill-conceived). 3 (non-gloss definition: expressing contempt, disdain, or hatred) n. 1 (context obsolete sometimes used abusively English) One born illegitimately (''i.e.'', out of (l/en: wedlock)); a (l/en: bastard). 2 (context loosely quasi-nominal collective as “the misbegotten ''[''are'']''” English) That set of people born into (l/en: infelicitous) circumstances.

WordNet
misbegotten

adj. born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastard, bastardly, misbegot, spurious]

Wikipedia
Misbegotten (film)

Misbegotten is a 1998 film directed by Mark L. Lester.

Usage examples of "misbegotten".

Rothgar Abbey, home of the possibly deranged and murderous Dark Marquess, with a mysterious, misbegotten baby in the party.

The Lady had gifted her with, would not, for some misbegotten reason, work.

She paused in the darkness, feeling like a misbegotten creature from some nursery tale, one who must hide from lethal light.

I will not let that misbegotten old man use Chy an Cleth to manipulate me into a second marriage.

I did from time to time encounter one or more of them, who wore the Nazi black, and who attempted to assert their misbegotten authority over me.

Lander, and you got the misbegotten notion in your head to make such an unlawful sword, would you not keep its existence a secret?

Zoradeh out of his mind as he wished he could pull the whole of her misbegotten face and skinny body out of his life as well.

I live shalt thou mar the Mill or have the Maid, thou foul, black, misbegotten churl!

It has nothing to do with the Meliorares, may every one of their misbegotten souls rot in an appropriate hell, and everything to do with making money.

Short-Tails, misbegotten children of the Matronswho fashioned mechanisms that bound sorcery in ways long lost, who built vast, floating fortresses from which they launched devastating attacks upon their long-tailed kin.

I should have kissed you for that, and wrung the breath out of you afterwards for a starved, misbegotten spawn of an English apothecary--as you are, my son.

If you imagine that I am going to lead this misbegotten cur through the streets of London you must be out of your mind!

Suddenly, the boldest of the freaks snatched its arm back into the cage and, with its misbegotten companions, began to wail as we had heard them wailing when we were upstairs.

Where the One God had abandoned His misbegotten grandchildren, Rahab, in all the anguish of his immortal heart, had not.

Lob, Lobkyn he Commandeth thee To let her be And set her free, Thou scurvy, cutpurse, outlaw knave, Lest hanged thou be Upon a tree For roguery And villainy, Thou knavish, misbegotten slave.