bastardized
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I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
Officials have sort of bastardized the phrasing itself and use it to mean the opposite of what initially meant.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2020
Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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