bastardly

[bas-terd-lee]

adjective

1. of no value; worthless.

2. spurious; counterfeit.

   a bastardly version of a text.

3. bastard; baseborn.

4. vicious or despicable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bastardly¹

First recorded in 1545–55; bastard + -ly

Example Sentences

Your avatar, an undistinguished and highly fungible clone running through a seemingly endless series of testing chambers, does not seem at all bastardly.

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Remind me of real estate speculators in a land boom, the little bastardly opportunists.

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"Better think yourself so," said he, "than know it by being married to a poor bastardly vagabond."

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To be used ill by such a poor, beggarly, bastardly fellow."—"Hold your blasphemous tongue," cries Sophia: "how dare you mention his name with disrespect before me?

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