Bastardlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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)."

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"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)."

Etymology

From bastard + -like.

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