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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

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 ● Feb. 17, 2023

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

Already, he had heard the locals refer to it as the Newsless Courier, and he had immediately adapted the bastardized version as his own.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy



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