bastard

Example Sentences

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Ironically, the situation now is a bastard version of one reform favored by free market types: paying athletes without any pretense that they are real students.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Overcompensating for Tom's bastard status, she is overly warm to him and consistently neglects Blifil, which has caused him to grow up jealous and bitter.

From Salon • May 22, 2023

“The celebrity profile is the bastard stepchild of journalism, and I’m embarrassed sometimes to be associated with it,” he told Chicago magazine in 1996.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Rafael Goldstein makes John, Don Pedro’s nefarious bastard brother, seethe with credible resentment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

"But to-night Lady Stark thought it might give insult to the royal family to seat a bastard among them."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin