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Meaning of "bastardly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BASTARDLY

bastardly  [ˈbɑːstədlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BASTARDLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bastardly is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BASTARDLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bastard (Law of England and Wales)

A bastard in the law of England and Wales is a person whose parents were not married at the time of his or her birth, or indeed his or her conception. Should a married couple divorce, unlike in many other systems of law, there was previously no possibility of post factum legitimisation of a bastard. This situation was changed in 1926.

Definition of bastardly in the English dictionary

The definition of bastardly in the dictionary is despicable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BASTARDLY


awkwardly
ˈɔːkwədlɪ
backwardly
ˈbækwədlɪ
cowardly
ˈkaʊədlɪ
dastardly
ˈdæstədlɪ
downwardly
ˈdaʊnwədlɪ
eastwardly
ˈiːstwədlɪ
flusteredly
ˈflʌstədlɪ
forwardly
ˈfɔːwədlɪ
good-naturedly
ˌɡʊdˈneɪtʃədlɪ
haphazardly
ˌhæpˈhæzədlɪ
inwardly
ˈɪnwədlɪ
outwardly
ˈaʊtwədlɪ
scatteredly
ˈskætədlɪ
self-centeredly
ˌselfˈsentədlɪ
self-centredly
ˌsɛlfˈsɛntədlɪ
stiltedly
ˈstɪltədlɪ
straightforwardly
ˌstreɪtˈfɔːwədlɪ
tiredly
ˈtaɪədlɪ
upwardly
ˈʌpwədlɪ
weirdly
ˈwɪədlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BASTARDLY

basta
bastard
bastard cut
bastard daughter
bastard measles
bastard pop
bastard son
bastard title
bastard wing
bastardisation
bastardise
bastardism
bastardization
bastardize
bastardized
bastardry
bastardy
baste
baster
basti

WORDS THAT END LIKE BASTARDLY

blackguardly
frowardly
haggardly
hardly
laggardly
leewardly
leftwardly
niggardly
northeastwardly
northwestwardly
onwardly
seawardly
sluggardly
southwardly
southwestwardly
standardly
thirdly
untowardly
waywardly
westwardly
wizardly

Synonyms and antonyms of bastardly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bastardly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BASTARDLY

Find out the translation of bastardly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bastardly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bastardly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

出身微贱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Bastardly
570 millions of speakers

English

bastardly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bastardly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

bastardly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

bastardly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Bastardly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bastardly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bâtard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bastardly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bastardly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偽の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bastardly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bastardly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bastardly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மதிப்புக் குறைந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनियमित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bastardly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bastardly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Bastardly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

bastardly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Bastardly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Bastardly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Bastardly
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bastardly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Bastardly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bastardly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BASTARDLY»

The term «bastardly» is regularly used and occupies the 100.747 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BASTARDLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bastardly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASTARDLY»

Discover the use of bastardly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bastardly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Engagement in Peril
Imust tellyou, these people thatIthought Iwas helping are quite the ignorant bastardly Christians. Whatkind of religious people gossip,lie, cheat, and stealfromthe very church they worshipped? And for all their deceits, it is often amongst ...
DARA ODOE SOK, 2011
2
Some Bastardly People
SOME BASTARDLY PEOPLE describes various entries in Dr. Waddell's life involving the "Zeuses" of colleges.
William H. Waddell, 1995
3
The complete works of Richard Sibbes, ed. with mem. by A.B. ...
Take it at the best, it is but a bastardly help, and bastardly means breed a bastardly devotion. For will God work grace in the heart by means of man's devising ? If pictures be any teachers, they are ' teachers of lies,' saith the prophet , Isa. ix.
Richard Sibbs, Alexander Balloch Grosart, 1863
4
Ridin' with Rosie and Livin' with Evie
BASTARDLY. MISCONCEPTION. Confusion resulting in humorous outcomes seemed to accompany many of my mother's endeavors. These were not the situations of Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop. Rather they were more of a misunderstanding of ...
Charles Ramsey, 2009
5
Extreme Waves
BASTARDLY. BASS. STRAIGHT. “Thursday, April 19, 1770. Had fresh gales at SSW and cloudy squally weather with a large southerly sea. Saw land at a distance of 5 or 6 leagues. The southernmost point of land at latitude 37 degrees,  ...
Craig B. Smith, 2006
6
Publications of the Surtees Society
Heard Dorothie Proctor nominate, tearme, and call Mr. Thomas Gray " base bastardly roague," and " base rascall," in the towne gate of Pontyland, unto the said Thomas Gray. Her mother is a tenant to Mr. Gray, and she liveth with her mother, ...
Surtees Society, 1861
7
Dawn of the Assassin
Or you will burn in hell for your deliberate, bastardly transgression that you took against our Lord Christ!” “Bastardly” did not illuminate the bearing of Mark's pedigree for there was a five-year-old attempting to grasp that sinister tone of bastardly ...
Thomas Abrams, 2010
8
The Anatomy of Swearing
Pt. II, I, ii Hostess: . . . thou bastardly rogue . . . thou honey-suckle villain. Pt. II, II, i To have called a man a bastard or an adjectivally bastardly rogue was most probably an old imprecation by Shakespeare's time, yet instances of its use before ...
Ashley Montagu, 1967
9
Lobcocks and Fartleberries: 18th-Century Insults to Confound ...
Presents a collection of insults and rude words that were used in the eighteenth century.
Francis Grose, 2011
10
The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. ...
Bastardly. Communists"1. Communism caused Dos Passos to reevaluate himself . By 1932 he was considered one of the most promising candidates for celebrity literary spokesman of ...
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Richard Layman, Joel Myerson, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASTARDLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bastardly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Villainry 101: Where It All Went Wrong
And, when he is brought back to life at the end of the second film, audiences are genuinely glad to see his charismatic, bastardly face. I have to ... «The Mary Sue, Jul 15»
2
Bishop Condemns Murder Of Vicar In Rivers
... perpetrators of the bastardly act are unravelled promptly, adding that the diocese will be available to assist in the success of the investigation. «The Tide, Jul 15»
3
Gossip: Lennon to Swoop for his Former Winger
... when I read a new rumour which has sprouted out of no where, even if it is from a more credible, yet still bastardly, source - the Daily Mail. «Lion of Vienna Suite, Jun 15»
4
Internet hate fuels a killer: How flags and gun laws obscure the …
The silver bullet in answering what could have saved Dylann from this bastardly path is easy to speculate on, but near impossible to pinpoint. «BetaNews, Jun 15»
5
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens plainly thinks we are going …
That's only fair, it thinks, because Abbott, in the same position had an even more bastardly and destructive approach. The antipathies are ... «WA today, Jun 15»
6
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell recap: episode four – All the Mirrors …
And so to that final scene, wherein Thistledown revealed his bastardly plan to both destroy Strange and steal his wife, a bit like Papa Lazarou ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
7
The racial battle lines of Redfern now
"So good on you then," the Maori woman says, "for not using their bastardly language correctly and throwing that 'umm' in there." I ask about ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
8
Entourage is just like its vacuous small-screen inspiration, only longer
Larsen McCredle, a bastardly cowboy billionaire played by Billy Bob Thornton, sends his son, Travis (Haley Joel Osment), to Hollywood to see ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jun 15»
9
Adam Mahama's death a blot on Ghana's democracy – Nana Addo
... bastardly act that is taking place has been a blot not only on our party[NPP] but also on our nation's democracy that we have as a people.”. «Citifmonline, May 15»
10
Galactic Civilizations 3 review
Nobody ever said you can't be both Benevolent and bastardly sneaky at the same time! Other new additions include pirate bases that become ... «PC Gamer, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bastardly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bastardly>. Apr 2024 ».
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