bastardized

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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

When I started writing, I was captivated by these myths and how they had become distorted and bastardized.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

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 • Feb. 17, 2023

“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

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