bastardized
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I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
When I started writing, I was captivated by these myths and how they had become distorted and bastardized.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
“Big Ag has co-opted and bastardized every one of our messages,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
“I’m quite experienced at understanding virality, how things grow, and data,” Ginn writes, in a hall-of-mirrors move that seems to elide the fact that marketing virality is a bastardized metaphor cribbed from … epidemiology.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 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
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