bastardize
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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
Or wait, maybe it’s just “about memory — and bastardized versions of memory,” as Brianna Zigler writes in Entertainment Weekly.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 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
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
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
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
The album honors the Black American folk tradition without bastardizing or commodifying it.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 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
