bastardize

But the posts I'm most drawn to feature pizza — the practically universal American comfort food that we love to bastardize.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022

“I feel like many people don’t realize that they bastardize ASL, and it harms more than it helps,” Bienvenu told Amanda.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

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

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

“I have not seen a foreign player bastardize the system. Most are serious about school.”

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2017

And were we to suppose his estate in his power to bequeath as he pleases; why should a man resolve, for the gratifying of his foolish humour only, to bastardize his race?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

“They’ve bastardized the concept of what NFTs were supposed to be,” said Aja Trier, an artist in Texas whose work has been copied and sold on OpenSea.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2020

Already, he had heard the locals refer to it as the Newsless Courier, and he had immediately adapted the bastardized version as his own.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

“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 think it’s a little bastardizing for artists to use the country industry for gain and not because they believe in what it should stand for,” Johnson said.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2019

The murder therefore was to be fixed on Richard the Third, who was to be supposed to have usurped the throne, by murdering, and not, as was really the case, by bastardizing his nephews.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace