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Bastardly

Bastardly \Bas"tard*ly\, a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [Obs.]
--Shak. Donne.

Wiktionary
bastardly

a. 1 Being born out of marriage. 2 Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless.

WordNet
bastardly

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

Usage examples of "bastardly".

Thinking, by God, I'd take it from every goddamned pissant in the plant just because I had to take it from that goddamned dried-up, bastardly, son-of-abitching old Fascist.

Katherine, for her part, pointedly ignored me, but Halstead didn't change at all —he just went on his usual bastardly way.