bastardized

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But this idea has been bastardized to the point of thinking that life knows that we humans are putzes and will clean up our mess.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 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

Yet, both self-care and kindness have been bastardized, transformed into ways to sell things that don’t materially help anyone except the seller’s bank account and the buyer’s own ego.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2020

Officials have sort of bastardized the phrasing itself and use it to mean the opposite of what initially meant.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 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