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Definition of Bastardly

1. Adjective. Born out of wedlock. "The dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"

2. Adjective. Of no value or worth. "I was caught in the bastardly traffic"

Definition of Bastardly

1. a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

Definition of Bastardly

1. Adjective. Being born out of marriage. ¹

2. Adjective. Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastardly

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardly

bastardised bastardiser bastardisers bastardises bastardising bastardism bastardization bastardizations bastardize bastardized

bastardizer bastardizers bastardizes bastardizing bastardliness bastardly (current term) bastardly gullion bastardly gullions bastardry bastards

bastardsword bastardswords bastardy bastardy bond bastardy bonds bastardy proceeding baste basted bastegh baster

Literary usage of Bastardly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... "by sense and a kind of spurious or bastardly reason ;" that is, that we could have no clear conceptions of them in our understanding. ..."

2. An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy: With an Adaptation of the Poetics, and a by Lane Cooper (1922)
"bastardly ' = dastardly). In parodies (see below, pp. 258—9), the individual style of the author parodied — his pet forms and constructions — will become ..."

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