Cruel, despicable, or otherwise unpleasant behaviour.
blocking the debate was an act of political bastardry
Example sentencesExamples
- He gave unscrupulous people the go ahead to commit acts of bastardry.
- Perhaps caucus members felt that increasing the future incidence of bastardry was a price worth paying in the effort to put the nightmare behind them.
- She is a fierce champion of equality of opportunity, having endured the bastardry of the Queensland government decades ago.
- These little acts of bastardry are proof they know their goose is cooked.
- The hooking role is the most aggressively confrontational in the union game - an exercise in naked, no-holds-barred bastardry.
- Politics in New Zealand needs more low bastardry, not this kind of amateur hour stuff.
- The only viable defence against such bastardry rests with National print media truly living up to their professional journalistic standards.
- Now they are being rewarded for their bastardry to our children with no requirement that they even spend it on education.
- I did not note anyone ask her about this act of complete bastardry.
- Aussie politicians are generally very, very good at low bastardry.