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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

And I'm like, "Cheeky bastard, of course I'm OK to fly".

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2022

He hated Esteban Trueba, his seduced grandmother, his bastard father, and his own inexorable peasant fate.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende