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bastardly
  • s  born out of wedlock
  • s  of no value or worth
    I was caught in the bastardly traffic
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bass
  • n  the lowest part of the musical range
  • n  the lowest part in polyphonic music
  • n  an adult male singer with the lowest voice
  • n  the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
  • n  any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
  • n  the lowest adult male singing voice
  • n  the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
  • n  nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
  • s  having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
    a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice
    a bass clarinet
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bastard
  • n  insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
  • n  the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
  • n  derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
    the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic
  • s  fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
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bastardised
  • v  change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
  • v  declare a child to be illegitimate
  • s  deriving from more than one source or style
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