bastard child
Example Sentences
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It also suggests that the IMF, the utterly vital, eternally disavowable, brutally underloved bastard child of American intelligence, may not survive this latest and severest test of its abilities and resources.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2023
Young Gendry made his appearance as the late king's bastard child.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2017
Jon is a bastard child, but not of Ned Stark.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2017
As the bastard child of “The Twilight Zone” with better-looking principles, “The X-Files” won us over with its paranormal scenarios and long-simmering tension between swaggering, moody Mulder and chilly, scientific Scully.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2015
“The whale abhors chaos; the squid detests order. Is this ship not the bastard child of both?”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
