Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must have been a little bastard," the grownup Freddy candidly admits, "but I was always the leader." What bothered his teachers more than the way he flunked courses was such extracurricular activity as yelling obscenities from the auditorium balcony, or commandeering textbooks from other pupils and selling them back for two bits apiece, "way below wholesale cost," as one of the old gang puts it. Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation...
...book was an instant bestseller; its ribald irreverence made Rabelais famous to the laity, infamous to the clergy. It did not help his case that he was a lapsed monk, and the known father of a bastard. The rest of his life (he lived to be close to 60) was spent under the continual threat of the Inquisitional stake...
...ascent, which was described as one to prove that "man can fly," was scheduled to take place at 1:15 p.m., in celebration of the 'Poon's 75th anniversary. At about 1 p.m. Lampoon men, attired in top hats and Chesterfield coast, gathered in front of "that bastard chateau" with a brass band and began the ceremony...
...caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
Coak, who speaks only a bastard calypso, has predicted mango and artichoke plagues with 94 percent accuracy since he was burned for wizardry...