Vocabulary Word
Word: bastard
Definition: illegitimate child
Definition: illegitimate child
Sentences Containing 'bastard'
``To be sure; besides, every millionaire is as noble as a bastard that is, he can be.''
In the mammalia, for instance, the males possess rudimentary mammae; in snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in birds the "bastard-wing" may safely be considered as a rudimentary digit, and in some species the whole wing is so far rudimentary that it cannot be used for flight.
But they are very favourable if they wheedle nobody into matrimony, but only make a present of a small live creature, no bigger than a bastard, to some of the family, no matter who gets it; when a child is born it must be kept.
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