bastardize

Example Sentences

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It's not coincidental that the way they're bastardized and depleted serves certain interests.

From Salon

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

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

From small hacks to amp up existing classics to unique combinations of flavors, there is — to bastardize the iconic "Seinfeld" line — a soup for you.

From Salon

For Mrs. Jacobs mainly blames their ideas, or bastardized versions of them, for what is wrong with our cities.

From New York Times