Misbegotten

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misbegot \Mis`be*got"\, Misbegotten \Mis`be*got"ten\, p. a.
     1. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable
        origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out;


        ill-conceived.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misbegotten
       adj : born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
             away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"-
             E.A.Freeman [syn: {bastard}, {bastardly}, {misbegot}, {spurious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "misbegotten":
     bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, baseborn, bastard, bizarre,
     blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, club-footed, defaced,
     deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, false, fatherless, flatfooted,
     freak, freakish, gargoylish, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned,
     ill-shaped, illegitimate, knock-kneed, malformed, marred,
     miscreated, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated,
     natural, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety,
     rococo, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, spurious, stumpy,
     supposititious, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic,
     teratoid, truncated, unshapely