| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, baseborn, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine |
Antonyms: |
legitimate |
| Main Entry: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is false, deceitful |
Synonyms: |
bastard, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, crook, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, forger, four-flusher, hoaxer, horse trader, impostor, mechanic, mountebank, phony, play actor, pretender, quack, racketeer, sham*, shark, swindler |
| Main Entry: | hybrid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composite, mixture |
Synonyms: |
amalgam, bastard, combination, compound, cross, crossbreed, half-blood, half-breed, half-caste, incross, miscegenation, mongrel, mule, outcross |
Antonyms: |
homogeneous, pedigreed, pure, purebred, thoroughbred, unmixed |
| Main Entry: | misbegotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate, illicit |
Synonyms: |
baseborn, bastard, dishonest, disreputable, illegal, natural, poor, shady, spurious, stolen, suppositious, unlawful, unrespectable |
Antonyms: |
lawful, legal, legitimate, licit |
| Main Entry: | mongrel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal of mixed background |
Synonyms: |
bastard, cross, crossbreed, cur, half-blood, half-breed, hybrid, mixed breed, mixture, mule, mutt |
| Main Entry: | spurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit, fake |
Synonyms: |
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent, bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*, simulated, specious, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, unreal |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real, true |
| Main Entry: | illegitimate child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child born out of wedlock |
Synonyms: |
bar sinister, bastard, bastard child, bend sinister, by-blow, child born without benefit of clergy, love child, nullius filius, out-of-wedlock child, whoreson |
| Main Entry: | knave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rascal |
Synonyms: |
bastard, blackguard, fraud, heel, lowlife, miscreant, rapscallion, reprobate, rogue, scallywag, scamp, scoundrel, swindler, villain |
| Main Entry: | love child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child born out of wedlock |
Synonyms: |
bar sinister, bastard, bastardy, by-blow, fruit of adultery, illegitimate child, natural child, nullius filius, spurious offspring, whoreson |
| Main Entry: | baseborn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
base, bastard, misbegotten, spurious |