Bastardlike

Alternative forms

• bastard-like

Origin

From en + -bastard + like.

Full definition of bastardlike

Adjective

1. Like, resembling, or characteristic of a bastard; bastardly
• 1999, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later:While modernity in the developed countries meant an authentic transformation of society, becoming their daily way of life and "feeding itself on the changes produced by capitalism's emergence” (Quijano), modernity in Latin America, as Velia Cecilia Bobes has said, has been traumatic due to its bastardlike and deformed condition (in relation to the industrialized West).