spurious offspring

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The sparrow who unwittingly rears the cuckoo’s spurious offspring, tending with care the ultimate destroyer of its own young, does so in perfect ignorance of the results about to follow the misplaced affection.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 by Various

It's not enough that you should tell me to my face that somebody else is your real husband, but you must shunt your spurious offspring into my house.

From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Caine, Hall, Sir