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Bastard

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Counterfeit 84% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Counterfeit 84% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Imitative 84% connected

Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…

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Imitative 84% connected

Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Offspring 76% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Progeny 76% connected

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

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Variation 76% connected

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

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Bastardize 74% connected

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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Bastardize 74% connected

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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Bastardly 74% connected

Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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Bastardly 74% connected

Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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Bogus 74% connected

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

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Bogus 74% connected

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

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Bogus 92% connected

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

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By-blow 92% connected

A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

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Fake 92% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Illegitimate 92% connected

Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

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Mongrel 92% connected

The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.

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Prick 92% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sob 92% connected

To soak.

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Whoreson 92% connected

A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.

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