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

He reacts with the defiance of a man whose football-playing friend recently described him as a "hard bastard".

From BBC • Jul. 4, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

If this was what the Night's Watch was truly like, she felt sorry for her bastard half brother, Jon.

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