| 单词 | bastard child |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard child c. figurative and in extended use in bastard child, bastard offspring, etc.: designating a product or result, typically one perceived as being inferior, undesirable, or unfortunate; (now) esp. the result of a specified combination or collaboration. Cf. love-child n. 2. ΚΠ 1759 P. Hiffernan Lady's Choice i. ii. 12 As to Opinion, tho' but the Bastard Child of Judgment, you have none. 1878 Princeton Rev. July 141 This bastard result of pseudo-Christology stands even in close relation to modern Judaism. 1968 K. Denton Walk around my Cluttered Mind 153 Australian Rules football, that bastard child of Rugby. 1995 L. Gunst Born fi' Dead (1996) p. xv These island desperados are the bastard offspring of Jamaica's violent political ‘shitstem’..and the gunslinger ethos of American movies. 2018 New Statesman (Nexis) 18 July (heading) Dead girls, wrap-around porches and enervating humidity: this crime drama is like the bastard child of Carson McCullers and Big Little Lies. < as lemmas |
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