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The phrase "bastard for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is extremely good at or well-suited for a particular task or skill. Example: "Tom is a bastard for coding, he can create a fully functional website in just one day."
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Shaw said his father "had to be a selfish bastard" for leaving his family.
Here, we're told he's an early riser; there, a bastard for his lie-ins.
Recently, he called his father a bastard for forbidding him to watch South Park.
She is also meant to be from Yorkshire, although only at random intervals does Hathaway remember to clip her vowels — "bastard," for instance, with a short "a".
Today, alas, not only is the Israeli peace camp dead, but the most effective Israeli "bastard for peace," Defense Minister Ehud Barak, is retiring.
"I thought it would be fun to write a song that sounds like a romantic, sad, love song, but from the viewpoint of the bastard for once.
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Billy snapped, "I can't forgive them bastards for what they done".
After she screened "Bastards" for friends and members of the crew, she waited for their verdicts at a nearby bar.
The other major school of thought here, call it the "Yitzhak Rabin school," was best described by the writer Leon Wieseltier as the "bastards for peace".
"Just to be able to look out at that sea of bastards for the last time ever — well, it doesn't get sweeter than that," he said.
On one occasion, he called the coalition government "bastards" for its policy of cuts, suggesting that the Tories would have "laughed in Bambi when his mother got shot".
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