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- adjective Of or pertaining to
inferior parentage. - adjective
ill-conceived
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Examples
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His ideas are weak and over-stretched and the entire book is sullied by Stross 'ill-begotten belief that he can do humour.
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They invoke opposition to government bailouts as if on cue, but words such as greed, fraud and ill-begotten salaries and bonuses seem to have eluded them.
Stanley Kutler: THE TEA PARTY: DUPED SERVANTS OF POWER Stanley Kutler 2010
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As Irving's booming voice filled the theatre the strange and grotesque story took life, and the stage filled with masked dancers, enacting the wedding ball into which the Ancient Mariner had come like an ill-begotten creature rising from the Thames.
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There can be no responsibility without personal loss proportionate to their ill-begotten gains.
Iris Erlingsdottir: Accepting Responsibility for Iceland's Financial Disaster 2010
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After this crisis has passed, we need to figure out how to help the people of Haiti without repeating the missteps of our ill-begotten occupation a century ago.
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There can be no responsibility without personal loss proportionate to their ill-begotten gains.
Accepting Responsibility for Iceland's Financial Disaster 2010
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Someone should have put the nails in the coffin of this ill-begotten Bush plan before congressional hawks and defense company lobbyists could summon forces to resurrect it.
Laura Carlsen: U.S. Steps up Military Involvement in Mexico's Drug War 2010
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Someone should have put the nails in the coffin of this ill-begotten Bush plan before congressional hawks and defense company lobbyists could summon forces to resurrect it.
U.S. Steps up Military Involvement in Mexico's Drug War 2010
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When a dictatorial president takes us to ill-begotten wars, the solution becomes simply to find a better president -- as if the problem were one of leadership rather than an underlying structural impetus to make war.
Randall Amster: Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call 2010
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When a dictatorial president takes us to ill-begotten wars, the solution becomes simply to find a better president -- as if the problem were one of leadership rather than an underlying structural impetus to make war.
Randall Amster: Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call 2010
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