bastardized

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While this can prove tricky for famous estates and those looking to capitalize from someone else’s legacy, it ensures that beloved works can live forever, even if it’s in some loony, bastardized way.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

When I started writing, I was captivated by these myths and how they had become distorted and bastardized.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

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 • Feb. 17, 2023

I must stress: I do not want to be transformed into any sort of bastardized, unknown A.I. substrate at any point in the future.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022

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