On the one hand, it exudes the pejorative connotations of bastardy, illegitimacy, hybridization, and decay. |
This morning I woke with the niggling bastardy little ghost of last night's red wine vibrating through my head and dehydrating my synapses. |
In 1920 it was key in the introduction of the bastardy bill, which compelled fathers of illegitimate children to provide them with financial support. |
Huckabee has not extended his disapproval of bastardy and its enablers to Sarah Palin, mother of Bristol and grandmother of little Tripp. |
Since it omitted adulterine bastardy, and required a subsequent marriage, this law had quite limited effects. |
All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy. |