Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable)The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.

  2. (uncountable)A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.

  3. (uncountable)Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.

  4. (uncountable)Sexual reproduction involving different species.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.

  6. (uncountable)Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.

  7. (countable, uncountable)An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

Origin

From bastard + -ism.

From bastard + -ism.

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Forms

plural: bastardisms
Singularbastardism
Pluralbastardisms

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bastardism — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto