misbegotten
Example Sentences
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Sal quietly seethes with irritation at Sonny’s misbegotten machinations, his chilly demeanor suggesting a tense and potentially dangerous volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
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?
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025
He would redeem his misbegotten career and go out “in a blaze of glory,” as he would put it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
Spanning decades and traversing the ancient Mediterranean like some deeply misbegotten Carnival Cruise, this Shakespeare play mingles comedy, tragedy and Christian allegory.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024
Of course it occurred to him that he might be wrong, that some misbegotten shadow had fallen across his face and warped his seeing.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing misbegotten
The House of the Scorpion
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A Storm of Swords
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A Girl Named Disaster
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