bastardized
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I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
“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
Yet, both self-care and kindness have been bastardized, transformed into ways to sell things that don’t materially help anyone except the seller’s bank account and the buyer’s own ego.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2020
Officials have sort of bastardized the phrasing itself and use it to mean the opposite of what initially meant.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2020
Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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