noun

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A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).

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(typically referring to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.

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Some bastard stole my car while I was helping an injured person.

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A man, a fellow, a male friend.

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Get over here, you old bastard!

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(often preceded by 'poor') A person deserving of pity.

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Poor bastard, I feel so sorry for him.

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A child who does not know his or her father.

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Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

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Life can be a real bastard.

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A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.

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The architecture was a kind of bastard, suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.

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An intermediate-grade file; also bastard file.

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A sweet wine.

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A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.

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An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.

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A large mould for straining sugar.

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A writing paper of a particular size.

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A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.

verb

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To bastardize.

adjective

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Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).

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Of or like a bastard (bad person).

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Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.

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Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).

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a bastard culverin

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Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.

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Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.

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bastard gemsbok

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Very unpleasant.

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I've got a bastard headache.

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Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

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(theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.

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A bastard orange gel produces predominantly orange light with undertones of blue.

interjection

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Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.

Examples of bastard in a Sentence

Vinnie, you bastard, I'll kill you!

In spite, however, of the concerted attacks of William the Bastard (the Conqueror), duke of Normandy, and Henry I., king of France, he was able in 1051 to force Maine to recognize his authority, though failing to revenge himself on William.

You really are a bastard, Jonathan.

It also makes it easier to post things on the boards, both in terms of speed (faster to type WS than "that cheating lying bastard I married") and also keeping some anonymity and distance between the situation and talking about it.

I hate the bastard.

The lying bastard said you sent him.

Cynthia didn't give the bastard the time of day!

If I was going to kill the bastard, I'd do it face to face!

I don't want that bastard to know.

The old bastard had set the whole thing up!

The bastard better not be.

I'm really not a bastard, at least not as much as you think.

This chieftain lived north of the Orange river in the district now known as Griqualand West, and ruled over some 4000 people, a bastard race sprung from the intercourse between Boers and native women.

I wouldn't believe the bastard if he told me Lincoln was on the penny.

Jackson would never forget that bastard.

Bastard is always around when I don't need him and never around when I do.

He made his bastard son David bishop of Utrecht, and from 1456 onwards that see continued under Burgundian influence.

In March 1784 he entered into relations with a certain Jeanne de St Remy de Valois, a descendant of a bastard of Henry II., who after many adventures had married a soi-disant comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her.

Notwithstanding this, the influence of the empress Theophana, mother of Otto III., secured the appointment for Arnulf, a bastard son of Lothair.

The Egyptians, though acquainted with the bastard safflower, do not seem to have possessed saffron; but it is named in Canticles iv.

Tradition asserts that her father, Don Pedro Fernandez de Castro, and her mother, Dona Aldonca Soares de Villadares, a noble Portuguese lady, were unmarried, and that Inez and her two brothers were consequently of bastard birth.

Towards the end of his period of favour he caused great offence by legitimizing a supposed bastard son of very doubtful paternity and worthless personal character, and by arranging a rich marriage for him.

He and his bastard brother, Alexander, were joined by the former favourite, Georges de la Tremoille, John V., duke of Brittany, who allied himself with the English, the duke of Alencon, the count of Vendome, and captains of mercenaries like Antoine de Chabannes, or Jean de la Roche.

The new liberties, as might be expected, did not tend to improve the relations between the town of Utrecht and its ecclesiastical sovereign; and the feud reached its climax (1481-84) in the "groote vorlag," or great quarrel, between the citizens and Bishop David, the Bastard of Burgundy, who had been foisted upon the unwilling chapter by the combined pressure of Duke Philip of Burgundy, his half-brother, and the pope.

A romantic friendship with the king's bastard, Count Ulric Frederick Gyldenldve, consolidated his position.

Chinchilla, La Plata, incorrectly named and known in the trade as "bastard chinchilla," size 9 X4 in., in a similar species, but owing to lower altitudes and warmer climatic conditions of habitation is smaller, with shorter and less beautiful fur, the underwool colour being darker and the top colour less pure.

He had several illegitimate children, among them being Corneille, called the Grand Bastard, who was killed in 1452 at the battle of Ruppelmonde.

The Welsh triads know no fewer than three Gwenhwyfars; Giraldus Cambrensis, relating the discovery of the royal tombs at Glastonbury, speaks of the body found as that of Arthur's second wife; the prose Merlin gives Guenevere a bastard half-sister of the same name, who strongly resembles her; and the Lancelot relates how this lady, trading on the likeness, persuaded Arthur that she was the true daughter of Leodegrance, and the queen the bastard interloper.

Owen left many bastard children; his legitimate representative in 1433 was his daughter Alice, wife of Sir John Scudamore of Ewyas.

So did her lying, cheating bastard of an ex-boyfriend.

It's that's lying bastard, my brother-in-law and his lard-assed wife!

That bastard Arthur skipped out on me!

For once, she thought, the heartless bastard was right.

Much advantage arises from the steam working of bastard fallows in summer, and after harvest a considerable amount of autumn cultivation can be done by steam power, thus materially lightening the work in the succeeding spring.

Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci (1549-1598), the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper.

By anglers the common English species of Ephemera (vulgata and danica, but more especially the latter, which is more abundant) is known as the "may-fly," but the terms "green drake" and "bastard drake" are applied to conditions of the same species.

During the Roman period the ancient Carthaginians of Phoenician origin and the bastard population termed by ancient authors Libyo-Phoenicians, like the modern Maltese, invariably formed the predominant population of the towns on the littoral, and retained the Punic language until the 6th century of the Christian era.

He was the bastard son of Robert the Devil, duke of Normandy, by Arletta, the daughter of a tanner at Falaise.

Harald now ruled the country until 1136, when he was murdered by Sigurd SlembiDiakn, another bastard son of Magnus Barefoot.

Of plants used for dyeing, the principal are bastard saffron, madder, woad and the indigo plant.

For his former favourites were substituted energetic advisers, his brother-in-law Charles of Anjou, Dunois (the famous bastard of Orleans), Pierre de Breze, Richemont and others.

While Mary was arranging a marriage between Bothwell and the late Huntly's daughter, Lady Jane Gordon, Darnley intrigued with Lord Ruthven and George Douglas, a bastard kinsman of Morton, for the murder of Riccio, and for his own acquisition of the crown matrimonial.

In answer to his appeals for quarter and promises to pay ransom, he was told by Richard, the bastard son of King John, that he was a traitor who would not be allowed to deceive more men.

Besides betel-nut (Areca Catechu), the palms of India include the coco-nut (Cocos nucifera), the bastard date (Phoenix sylvestris), the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer), and the true date (Phoenix dactylifera).

Sugar is manufactured both from the sugar-cane and from the bastard date-palm, but the total production is inadequate to the local demand.

This remarkable man was said to be a bastard of Abu Sofian, the father of Moawiya, and was, by his mother, the brother of Abu Bakra, a man of great wealth and position at Basra.

There was a tendency to apply the rule that a bastard follows the mother, especially in the case of a servile mother.

Wolff's formalism is the bastard outcome of the speculation of Leibnitz, and is related to it as remotely as Scholasticism is to Aristotle.

Voltaire, in his Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), told the story of the mysterious masked prisoner with many graphic details; and, under the heading of "Ana" in the Questions sur l'encyclopedie (Geneva, 1771), he asserted that he was a bastard brother of Louis XIV., son of Mazarin and Anne of Austria.

In 428 or 429 the whole nation set sail for Africa, upon an invitation received by their king from Bonifacius, count of Africa, who had fallen into disgrace with the court of Ravenna Gunderic was now dead, and supreme power was in the hands of his bastard brother, who is generally known in history as Genseric, though the more correct form of his name is Gaiseric. This man, short of stature and with limping gait, but with a great natural capacity for war and dominion, reckless of human life and unrestrained by conscience or pity, was for fifty years the hero of the Vandal race and the terror of Constantinople and Rome.

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