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US
/ˌmɪsbəˈɡɑtən/
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[ UK /mɪsbɪɡˈɒtən/ ]
[ UK /mɪsbɪɡˈɒtən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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born out of wedlock
the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
How To Use misbegotten In A Sentence
- We rejected the brutality, the propaganda, the misbegotten wars, the imperial arrogance.
- And those poor schmucks who are over there fighting and dying for this misbegotten war need to believe that they are doing a good deed for their fellow man and protecting their own.
- As I don't own a television, my irregular glimpses of that misbegotten medium derive from the hospitality of someone else.
- 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. Dailyindia.com News Feed
- Time out for complaint: Is there ever any sunshine on this misbegotten planet?
- Other than the odd splutter, my cold is now firmly kicked into touch, and I can review with a head no muzzier than usual progress on the misbegotten work in progress. Archive 2008-11-01
- You must break the will of His minions that cause the gates to stand, and face the misbegotten army that defends them.
- And all of this must be viewed within the conditions that exist in this poor misbegotten place as we speak.
- Liguori, Burchard, Billuard, Rousselot, Gordon, Gaisson, are put into their hands at an early age -- works which reveal more secrets of impudicity than Aretino has described, or Commodus can have practiced -- works which recommend more craft and treachery and fraud and falsehood than Machiavelli accorded to his misbegotten Saviour of Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
- There's a daughter, her misbegotten marriage to a dopehead musician over, now returned to the parental home with her two upset teenage children. You Can Go Home Again