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misbegotten

[ mis-bi-got-n ]

adjective

  1. unlawfully or irregularly begotten; begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate:

    his misbegotten son.

  2. badly conceived, made, or carried out:

    his misbegotten plan.



misbegotten

/ ËŒ³¾Éª²õ²úɪˈɡɒ³ÙÉ™²Ô /

adjective

  1. unlawfully obtained

    misbegotten gains

  2. badly conceived, planned, or designed

    a misbegotten scheme

  3. literary.
    ´¡±ô²õ´Ç³¾¾±²õ²ú±ð²µ´Ç³ÙËŒ³¾Éª²õ²úɪˈɡɒ³Ù illegitimate; bastard
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of misbegotten1

First recorded in 1540–50; mis- 1 + begotten
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Musk waded into Euro-politics with all the misbegotten confidence of a person who has gotten obscenely rich on exploiting other people’s ideas without quite having any of his own.

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Before long, however, President George W. Bush’s misbegotten war in Iraq shattered the sense of oneness.

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His activism earned him the lasting enmity of those who supported the misbegotten war.

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Will Congress ever investigate this misbegotten operation and finally nail down the chain of events?

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But the cognitive dissonance of this convention goes well beyond that forlorn, misbegotten entrepreneurial venture.

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