misbeget
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2MISBEGET + NOUN
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than
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To beget wrongly or badly.
Therefore, Master Giles, buss the old folk, and thank them for misbegetting of thee, and ho ! you, — bring hither his mule !
The greatest of all penalties; for what worse calamity can human beings suffer in the production of offspring than to misbeget?'
To beget wrongly or badly.
Take it; disperse the rich man's store ; Take it, and satisfy your need ; Then misbeget some millions more For our posterity to feed.
The lawyer's training, experience, and self-discipline can help to bring order into the frequently chaotic world of labor arbitration—to substitute reason and logic for the emotionalism and sloppy thinking that misbeget many arbitration proceedings, and sometimes the decisions as well.
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3Therefore, Master Giles, buss the old folk, and thank them for misbegetting of thee, and ho ! you, — bring hither his mule !
WiktionaryThe greatest of all penalties; for what worse calamity can human beings suffer in the production of offspring than to misbeget?'
WiktionaryWhat about parents who, through fecklessness and stupidity misbeget a sequence of unwanted children and then so ill- treat or neglect them that they have to be removed from their care ?
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