misbegotten

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.

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

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

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

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