17 Verbs to Use for the Word bastards

But tell me, ye divines, which is the most virtuous man, he who begets twenty bastards, or he who sacrifices a hundred thousand lives?

If Solitude that dwelt beneath my roof, And want of children was a torment to me, What end of my vexation to behold A bastard to upbraid me with my wants?

He calls the cornice barbarous, confused, bastard in style, discordant with the rest of the building, and so ill suited to the palace as, if carried out, to threaten the walls with destruction.

Among the many phrases which Germans have coined to describe Belgium the following occur: bastard, eunuch and hermaphrodite.

I'll send for the old alderman, Getwell, immediately: He'll father the devil's bastard, I warrant you. Isa.

He established their rank by his personal prestige, as the kings of Europe forced their bastards on the courts.

What a bawdy knave hath he to his father, that keeps his Rachel, hath his bastards, and lets his sons be plain ladies' puppies to bewray a lady's chamber.

Prec., 232-3 (Commutation of a penance for having a bastard into £5 to be paid for the repair of St. Paul's, London, and also into 34s.

In the husband's case "the man imposes no bastards upon his wife."

His actions are guilty of more crimes than any other men's, thoughts; and he conceives no sin which he dare not act save only lust, from which he abstains for fear he should be charged with keeping bastards.

Every one moved hastily aside, but not before some were wounded; it is even said that several were killed, among them a bastard of Polignac.

[6087]Philippus Bonus left fourteen bastards.

Here, as in civilization, men love their bastards often more than their legitimate sons and daughters.

Ay, I'll be one, in hope to meet the bastard, And then no more: myself will be his headsman.

280 Did we a lawful tyranny displace, To set aloft a bastard of the race?

Smile on our author then, if he has shown A jolly nut-brown bastard of your own.

untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. artificial, synthetic, ersatz

17 Verbs to Use for the Word  bastards