misbegotten

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. born out of wedlock

Similar word(s): illegitimate, bastardly, misbegot, spurious

noun

1. (obsolete, sometimes used abusively) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.

2. (loosely, quasi-nominal collective, as “the misbegotten [are]”) That set of people born into infelicitous circumstances.