bastardize

Example Sentences

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It's not coincidental that the way they're bastardized and depleted serves certain interests.

From Salon

But it also elides an inconvenient truth about mainstream filmmaking that most screenwriters would prefer go un-emphasized, which is that their craft has always been a bastardized art form.

From Washington Post

From small hacks to amp up existing classics to unique combinations of flavors, there is — to bastardize the iconic "Seinfeld" line — a soup for you.

From Salon

For Mrs. Jacobs mainly blames their ideas, or bastardized versions of them, for what is wrong with our cities.

From New York Times

“Big Ag has co-opted and bastardized every one of our messages,” he said.

From New York Times