misbegotten

It wasn’t their fault that the wars they found themselves in were misbegotten and mismanaged.

Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame?

He would redeem his misbegotten career and go out “in a blaze of glory,” as he would put it.

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.