bastardized

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But this idea has been bastardized to the point of thinking that life knows that we humans are putzes and will clean up our mess.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

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

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

Officials have sort of bastardized the phrasing itself and use it to mean the opposite of what initially meant.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2020

“I’m quite experienced at understanding virality, how things grow, and data,” Ginn writes, in a hall-of-mirrors move that seems to elide the fact that marketing virality is a bastardized metaphor cribbed from … epidemiology.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2020

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