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HOME | Definition of misbegotten (MISBEGOTTEN, 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.
    [1913 Webster]

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

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    54 Moby Thesaurus words for "misbegotten":
    bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, baseborn, bastard, bizarre,
    blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, club-footed, defaced,
    deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, false, fatherless, flatfooted,
    freak, freakish, gargoylish, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned,
    ill-shaped, illegitimate, knock-kneed, malformed, marred,
    miscreated, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated,
    natural, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety,
    rococo, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, spurious, stumpy,
    supposititious, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic,
    teratoid, truncated, unshapely

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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