bastardize

Example Sentences

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If we are to truly lower the temperature in America and restore productive civil discourse, rhetoric that bastardizes the concept of unity needs to stop.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2021

But in doing so, it also rearranges and bastardizes those objectives.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

It just kind of misses the point and bastardizes language and obscures meaning.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2012