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
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
“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
That was always going to be a bastardized version of a baseball season, without fans in the seats and with manufactured crowd noise piped pumped into the stadium and broadcast feeds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022
"Really?" the lover said, although Yolanda had already filled him in on her family and her bastardized name—Yo, Joe, Yoyo.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
“It’s a matter of not bastardizing the original business statement of the original brand,” he says, of his increased physical presence on the channel.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2021
“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 should haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
