Sentence examples for bastards from inspiring English sources

(Those bastards at Cadbury have been torturing me lately with their ceaseless innovations, perhaps most deviously by inserting cheese biscuits – cheese biscuits – into their chocolate, with predictably sexual results).

Asked about his famous description of Eurosceptics as "bastards", he remarked ruefully: "What I said was unforgivable".

Sometimes," he finished, quoting an old friend of his from Melbourne he mentioned at the beginning of his speech, "you need to kick down those Parliament doors and tell those rich bastards they can't get away with it".

Iain Duncan Smith, leader of the bastards outside the cabinet during the Major government, was dispatched.

(His mother left when Carlyle was a toddler - he had no contact with her until the Sunday Mirror tracked her down in 1995: "I didn't even know what she looked like, and then these bastards dug her up. Imagine what that does to you," he said at the time).

Michael Portillo was not then the modernising metrosexual he would become, but the most prominent of John Major's rightwing "bastards".

The word basta – "stop, enough!" – was heard often from our parents, particularly when we were making too much noise outside, but it would be years before we realised with great laughter that our neighbours had thought for years that our parents were calling us "bastards".

Two campers testified that the men were swearing at them, shouting "niggers" and "black bastards" and that they "stink".

My skill is seeing something and feeling that we are going to get those bastards, putting together the team with lawyers with intellect".

Someone who tells hard-pressed people that he can give them cake-and-eat-it tomorrow (if only those bastards in the Establishment would let him) is always going to have appeal.

By coincidence - maybe it was not coincidence - I was asked to chair two successive events on the theme of "the bastards are bonkers".