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bastardlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From bastard + -like.

Meanings

1. Like, resembling, or characteristic of a bastard; bastardly
   • 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). 1999, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later:

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