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
“I feel like many people don’t realize that they bastardize ASL, and it harms more than it helps,” Bienvenu told Amanda.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
And were we to suppose his estate in his power to bequeath as he pleases; why should a man resolve, for the gratifying of his foolish humour only, to bastardize his race?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
So I do think, yeah, to a degree I bring stuff from that show into, certainly "Someone You Love," the bit that that is taken from is a kind of bastardized version of that sentiment.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023
“Big Ag has co-opted and bastardized every one of our messages,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
“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
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
No one finished out 2025 talking about Disney bastardizing everyone’s favorite precocious blue alien, but “Materialists” was still driving conversations and reactions well through the end of the year.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026
The show’s actors say they, too, have been struck by Lester’s sure hand in getting big laughs and by how she brings a modern sensibility to the role without bastardizing it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
“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
“I think it’s a little bastardizing for artists to use the country industry for gain and not because they believe in what it should stand for,” Johnson said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2019
I should haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
