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
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
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
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
The show’s actors say they, too, have been struck by Lester’s sure hand in getting big laughs and by how she brings a modern sensibility to the role without bastardizing it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
“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
“If we bastardize Congress, we’re also bastardizing our country,” Cayetano said in his video message.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
I should haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
