misbegot

mis- +‎ begot

misbegot (comparative more misbegot, superlative most misbegot)

1. (archaic) Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene 5,

     Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d

     To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling

     Upon the head of valour; which indeed

     Is valour misbegot and came into the world

     When sects and factions were newly born:

   • 1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538,

     A Man defective born or misbegot

     To be therfor a Man deny wee not,

     Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can

     Of attributes essentiall to a Man.

   • 1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords,

     but who’s to say this love was misbegot

     with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots