misbegotten

mis- +‎ begotten

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/

misbegotten (comparative more misbegotten, superlative most misbegotten)

1. (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
2. (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
   • 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy” in The A.V. Club:

     Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

3. (by extension) Bad; worthless.

misbegotten (plural misbegotten)

1. (obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
2. (loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 161:

     By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

• OED (3rd ed., June 2002), “misbegotten, n. and adj.”