misbegotten
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
misbegotten
- (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
- (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
- 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “[http://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/ Cabin Boy]” in The A.V. Club:
- Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.
- 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “[http://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/ Cabin Boy]” in The A.V. Club:
- (by extension) Bad; worthless.
- Past participle of misbeget
misbegotten (plural misbegotten)
- (obsolete, sometimes, derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
- (loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
- 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, ISBN 0385033443, page 161:
- By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.
- 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, ISBN 0385033443, page 161:
- French: misérables
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