How to Use misbegotten in a Sentence

misbegotten

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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
• 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
• This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the move is utterly misbegotten.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The state is now embroiled in a lawsuit over the costs of undoing the misbegotten arrangement.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The misbegotten project, now stalling, should never have been started.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• And the typecasting of Barret is a misbegotten relic that should’ve been left in the past, even if Barret himself is still the game’s conscience.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Seattle’s efforts, such as the misbegotten jobs tax, might seem noble on the surface.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• After some misbegotten albums and a run of singles that barely scraped the lower reaches of the chart, Bennett split with the label in 1971.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 21 July 2023
• Even after the spinoff, ending the misbegotten media debacle may not be as easy as AT&T hopes.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 18 May 2021
• But their actions during their misbegotten 2017 campaign did swing the game tonight.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our craving for comfort often leads us to a misbegotten idea of what will bring happiness.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020
• 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
• As The Day is dying, the reporters and editors gather at a bar to eulogize it, and one talks about her misbegotten career choice, which has left her with two weeks’ severance and $81 in the bank.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
• The jokes are stale, the energy is stilted, and the whole thing feels like a misbegotten vanity exercise cooked up in the pandemic to keep them occupied.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• But, even so, Obama’s misbegotten efforts will stand out.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 9 May 2017
• This places a mark on the back of anyone who doesn’t fit their narrow, misbegotten notions of who belongs in America — which is, increasingly, to their fear and chagrin, most of us.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• 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
• Vietnam was a misbegotten war anyway—one that the U.S. deserved to lose; defeat there became a defining event in the history of the American self-image.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Spirit was spun out of Boeing in 2005 out of its misbegotten attempt to take assets off its balance sheet in order to improve its Return on Net Assets.
  — Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The committee heard from the architects of that misbegotten adventure, and from the people opposing it.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024