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mis·be·got·ten

   [mis-bi-got-n]
adjective
1.
unlawfully or irregularly begotten; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
2.
badly conceived, made, or carried out: his misbegotten plan.
Also, mis·be·got.

Origin:
1540–50; mis-1 + begotten
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Misbegotten is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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misbegotten (ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtən)
 
—adj
1.  unlawfully obtained: misbegotten gains
2.  badly conceived, planned, or designed: a misbegotten scheme
3.  literary, dialect Also: misbegot illegitimate; bastard

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misbegotten
"bastard, illegitimate," 1550s, pp. adj. from obsolete misbeget (c.1300); see mis- (1) + beget.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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