bastardy

Example Sentences

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Following that blockbuster Uruguay and Portugal will put their credentials to the test in a match with the potential to redefine footballing bastardy.

From The Guardian

The arm-wrestle between Portugal and Uruguay on Saturday will see a meeting of two teams with the necessary tournament bastardy, plus elite attackers in form.

From The Guardian

“All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy.”

From The New Yorker

Indeed, in Shakespeare's play, Richard III uses charges of bastardy to wipe out his rivals for the throne.

From Los Angeles Times

The arms borne in the usual manner were often surrounded with a bordure to indicate bastardy; of this mode of differencing several examples are furnished in the arms of existing peers descended from royalty.

From Project Gutenberg