bastardy
- n the status of being born to parents who were not married
- For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican, is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans.
- The suggestion that Jesus' childhood may have been dogged by the accusation of bastardy is perhaps implicit in his townspeople's question in Mark 6, "Isn't this Mary's son?".
- Stressed was the bastardy of Ramsay MacDonald, the 'cozy hospitality' of Mae West.