bastard
ba sterd
- 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
- Her husband will no longer be able to be unfaithful with impunity, nor will he be allowed to take his bastard children into the house as if they were legitimate, or repudiate his .
- Bastard? Slonimsky's sleuthing has also revealed that Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility .
- The candidate with the perfect bloodlines comes to office amid charges that his is a bastard presidency, sired not by the voters but by the courts.