Sentence examples for bastard about from inspiring English sources

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"bastard about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in informal or colloquial settings to mean "mess around" or "fool around." It can also be used to describe someone who is being lazy or not taking things seriously. Example: "Stop bastardting about and help me clean up the kitchen." In this sentence, "bastard about" is being used to express frustration with someone who is not being helpful or productive.

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He describes me as 'the bastard' about 100 times".

Is the Swans song Time Is Money (Bastard) about those days, a revenge fantasy against the brutality of capitalism?

"Would it be accurate?" Beginning with "The Bastard," about a young French émigré who under the name Philip Kent becomes caught up in the American Revolution, Mr. Jakes's novels had their debut amid bicentennial fever and touched a national nerve.

The sketch seemed to be a combination of two ideas: "Too Many Frozen Cavemen," in which a surplus of frozen Neanderthals drive scientists crazy, and "Swamp Bastard," about a Swamp Thing-like creature who keeps stealing everyone's girlfriends.

Asked whether the England pack needed some more "bastard" about it, and if this was what lay behind his appointment, Dylan Hartley stared at a bank of television cameras and said: "Are we live?

Just before Paul Foot died he came into the office cheering "I've got the bastard!" about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.

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There has been a crime-wave that UKIP have blamed on immigration, but Scott sees it as a much more nuanced issue – and anyway, there are plenty of nasty "indigenous" bastards about.

A couple of documentaries each earn four stars: Smash & Grab, about a big bling heist and Greedy Lying Bastards, about climate change deniers.

In her somber new noir, "Bastards," about a sea captain who returns to Paris to take vengeance against a powerful businessman for perversions visited on the captain's niece, she dissects with unsettling empathy the dark heart of a family ruined by money and incest.

So let's stop being such prideful bastards about our games and just agree to say "whatever works for you".

CHAIN-SMOKING HIS WAY through a pack of Winstons, Richard Wardrop Jr., the chief executive of ak Steel Holding, explains why his firm is the most profitable of the six largest U.S. steel producers on a per-ton basis: "We're crazy bastards about up-time," he says.

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