- bastard⇄adj. bastardly.
- bastard⇄adj. 1. born of parents who are not married to each other; ?illegitimate.
2. (Figurative.) not genuine; inferior.
Ex. Such poems by such poets should remove misconceptions about light verse as a kind of bastard poetry (Atlantic).
(SYN - bastard⇄bastard, noun, adjective.
- Bastard⇄Bastard, noun.
(in South Africa) a mulatto; Griqua. - bastard⇄noun 1. a child whose parents are not legally married to each other; illegitimate child.
2. (Figurative.) anything inferior or not genuine, especially anything of bad or spurious origin.
3. (Slang.) an especially unpleasant, disliked, and u