bastardize

Example Sentences

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It's not coincidental that the way they're bastardized and depleted serves certain interests.

From Salon

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

“These are people’s grandparents and great-grandparents that are knowledge-keepers, are elders, and their words which they put down, expecting people to learn from, expecting people to appreciate, have just been bastardized,” Holton said.

From Seattle Times

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

From Salon

“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