bastardize

It always finds a way to reinvent itself — to become more daring, to fuse and bastardize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

You simply had — to bastardize a phrase popularized by Timothy Leary — to turn in, tune out and drop out.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2024

“I feel like many people don’t realize that they bastardize ASL, and it harms more than it helps,” Bienvenu told Amanda.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

And were we to suppose his estate in his power to bequeath as he pleases; why should a man resolve, for the gratifying of his foolish humour only, to bastardize his race?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

"Almost every relationship in my life would be bastardized and disingenuous because I couldn’t tell them what was going on. My son has never taken a walk outside — in five months," she said.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

“They’ve bastardized the concept of what NFTs were supposed to be,” said Aja Trier, an artist in Texas whose work has been copied and sold on OpenSea.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

I must stress: I do not want to be transformed into any sort of bastardized, unknown A.I. substrate at any point in the future.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2022

But then, it was inevitable, like gravity, like night and day, little apple-bites when God's back is turned, her name fell, bastardized, breaking into a half dozen nicknames—"pobrecita Yosita"—another nickname.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

No one finished out 2025 talking about Disney bastardizing everyone’s favorite precocious blue alien, but “Materialists” was still driving conversations and reactions well through the end of the year.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026

The show’s actors say they, too, have been struck by Lester’s sure hand in getting big laughs and by how she brings a modern sensibility to the role without bastardizing it.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“It’s a matter of not bastardizing the original business statement of the original brand,” he says, of his increased physical presence on the channel.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2021

“I think it is absolutely ludicrous that two countries so blessed with such a wonderful product should be going to court and bastardizing the name manuka,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2019

The murder therefore was to be fixed on Richard the Third, who was to be supposed to have usurped the throne, by murdering, and not, as was really the case, by bastardizing his nephews.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace