bastardize
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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
“People were up in arms about how you could bastardize the written word, and do it on this screen, and not have the tactile feeling of the page and the leather-bound book,” he recalled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
“My fear is that what was meant for good, in terms of pancreas donation, is being bastardized for self-preservation” by organ procurement organizations, he said in an interview.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
“Big Ag has co-opted and bastardized every one of our messages,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
"Really?" the lover said, although Yolanda had already filled him in on her family and her bastardized name—Yo, Joe, Yoyo.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Duck à l’orange has a reputation as an archaic 1970s atrocity owing to American cooks bastardizing what should be a glistening garnish into a sickly-sweet goop.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
Patti Serrelli, the owner of the longtime Italian-beef purveyor Serrelli’s Finer Foods, had a harsher take on these adaptations: “They are kind of bastardizing the original recipe.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
“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 Horace Walpole
