bastardize

It always finds a way to reinvent itself — to become more daring, to fuse and bastardize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Megan objected to the anecdote on social media, accusing Harris of trying to "reinvent history" and "bastardize his memory."

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024

“People were up in arms about how you could bastardize the written word, and do it on this screen, and not have the tactile feeling of the page and the leather-bound book,” he recalled.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 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

"Almost every relationship in my life would be bastardized and disingenuous because I couldn’t tell them what was going on. My son has never taken a walk outside — in five months," she said.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

“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

But then, it was inevitable, like gravity, like night and day, little apple-bites when God's back is turned, her name fell, bastardized, breaking into a half dozen nicknames—"pobrecita Yosita"—another nickname.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Duck à l’orange has a reputation as an archaic 1970s atrocity owing to American cooks bastardizing what should be a glistening garnish into a sickly-sweet goop.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

Patti Serrelli, the owner of the longtime Italian-beef purveyor Serrelli’s Finer Foods, had a harsher take on these adaptations: “They are kind of bastardizing the original recipe.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

“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

“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

I should haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

From King Lear by William Shakespeare