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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-?

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *missaz

Proto-Germanic *missa-

Proto-West Germanic *missa-

Old English mis-

Middle English mys-

English mis-

English begotten

English misbegotten

From mis- + begotten.

Born out of wedlock; illegitimate. But as the Deuill would haue it, three miſ-be-gotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene, came at my Back, […]
broadly, figuratively Ill-conceived. Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.
broadly Bad; worthless. Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me—something seizing, surprising and revolting—this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to rëinforce it;[…]

derogatory, obsolete, sometimes One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
broadly, in plural A person born into infelicitous circumstances. By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.