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bastardless

bastardless adjective: without a bastard; lacking or devoid of bastards.

Adjective

bastardless (not comparable)

  1. Without a bastard; lacking or devoid of bastards
    • Each of those bastardless bitches's walk around in everyday life with people around them going, “O' look at them, they are so faithful, so righteous, so up standing.”2009, Mary Vega-Irvine, ENGAGING LILITH - Page 248
    • The last consideration he invokes concerns his lineage and the necessity of a bastardless race that can claim the distinction of a noble birth and the continuity of a genealogy that can be traced all the way back to the gods: [...]2012, Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure - Page 171

Origin of bastardless

From bastard + -less.

Questions about bastardless

What does bastardless mean?
Bastardless means without a bastard; lacking or devoid of bastards.
What part of speech is bastardless?
Bastardless is an adjective.

Words near bastardless in the dictionary

  1. bastardizer
  2. bastardizers
  3. bastardizes
  4. bastardizing
  5. bastardizings
  6. bastardless
  7. bastardlike
  8. bastardliness
  9. bastardling
  10. bastardlings
  11. bastardly

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