bastardize

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

You simply had — to bastardize a phrase popularized by Timothy Leary — to turn in, tune out and drop out.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 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

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

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

“Big Ag has co-opted and bastardized every one of our messages,” he said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

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

No one finished out 2025 talking about Disney bastardizing everyone’s favorite precocious blue alien, but “Materialists” was still driving conversations and reactions well through the end of the year.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026

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

“I think it is absolutely ludicrous that two countries so blessed with such a wonderful product should be going to court and bastardizing the name manuka,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2019

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

From King Lear by William Shakespeare