The word "bastardy" is correct and usable in written English.
The word is typically used to describe someone born out of wedlock, and is most often used as an insult. For example: "That man's comments are nothing but rank bastardy."
In 1920 it was key in the introduction of the bastardy bill, which compelled fathers of illegitimate children to provide them with financial support.
This morning I woke with the niggling bastardy little ghost of last night's red wine vibrating through my head and dehydrating my synapses.
Huckabee has not extended his disapproval of bastardy and its enablers to Sarah Palin, mother of Bristol and grandmother of little Tripp.
"As I understood it," Orton wrote, "farce originally was very close to tragedy, and differed only in the treatment of its themes — themes like rape, bastardy, prostitution".
In a global capitalist environment where every retailer is a bastard of some form or another, all you can do is pick the one you think is least bastardy.
Now, in much of the Western world, the concept of bastardy is merely quaint - unless it means the mother has no other hope of support.
Rich men have always got away with producing bastards as long as they picked up the tab; condemnations of bastardy are usually prompted by concern about a tribe of bastards having to be raised "on the parish".
Always mentioned as William Randolph Hearst's "great & good friend" was Cinemactress Marion Davies, stressed was the bastardy of Ramsay MacDonald, the "cozy hospitality" of Mae West.
"All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy".
"As I understood it," Orton wrote, "farce originally was very close to tragedy, and differed only in the treatment of its themes themes like rape, bastardy, prostitution".
