How to Use misbegotten in a Sentence
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So why is the season finale so rushed and drawn from the video game’s misbegotten ending?
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
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The misbegotten project, now stalling, should never have been started.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
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One hangs from the ceiling, like the misbegotten offspring of an overhead sign and a room divider.
—David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
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This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the move is utterly misbegotten.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 17 June 2022
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Seattle’s efforts, such as the misbegotten jobs tax, might seem noble on the surface.
—Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
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One plane’s misbegotten path helps explain why this keeps happening.
—Scott McCartney, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2021
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Your elderly parents seem to be running a trial of their own — a deeply misbegotten one and blind in all the wrong ways.
—New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
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Our craving for comfort often leads us to a misbegotten idea of what will bring happiness.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020
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Is there anything worth trying to make this stretch of pavement less hospitable to this misbegotten pastime?
—Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
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Let’s hope respect for dignity prevails and this misbegotten plan dies.
—Sally Satel and, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
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This misbegotten attempt to revisit that project proves that the opposite is just as true in equal measures.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2022
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So, why did Joshua James and his misbegotten cohorts agree to use force against the Capitol?
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022
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The state is now embroiled in a lawsuit over the costs of undoing the misbegotten arrangement.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
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Yet, Biden should not allow a misbegotten promise to block an effective weapon in his war on climate change.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
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Into this narrow social wedge was born a boy, child of a passionate but misbegotten moment.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
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It has been tucked away like a dark family history or a misbegotten war, even as its consequences play out daily.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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One of those items is a very real-looking papier-mâché pigeon poking out from a hole in the wall of that misbegotten closet.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
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All in all, no one seems too bruised by their misbegotten run-ins with the digital version of Eldest Mouse.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2021
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But then again the Reds may reckon that trading away the only good story on their misbegotten team would be nihilistic.
—Si.com Staff, SI.com, 29 May 2018
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But their actions during their misbegotten 2017 campaign did swing the game tonight.
—Jack Dickey, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
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Simon was about to get a big second chance to make good on his early pop-star promise when those misbegotten red pills in his pocket derailed his travel plans.
—Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
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Dennings, 39, tells us about her own misbegotten Halloween attire and more.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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The pregnant woman on the stretcher has become one of the most memorable images from the misbegotten Ukraine war.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
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Arthur doesn’t need to be given voice when his misbegotten views have proved to cause so much pain, destruction, animosity and death in this country.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
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Perfection is inhuman, and pretensions to it are both doomed and misbegotten.
—Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
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This was greeted by huzzahs from elite opinion-makers, but the commitment, and the entire effort, is misbegotten.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021
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Those who believe the war is a misbegotten enterprise that needs to end have existed from the operation’s outset.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022
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Cooper starred in Crowe’s Aloha, one of the director’s later and more misbegotten films.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
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A lot of people spew misbegotten notions of personal freedom while paying little or no heed to the severe illnesses and deaths around them.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
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Even after the spinoff, ending the misbegotten media debacle may not be as easy as AT&T hopes.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 18 May 2021
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