bastardized
Example Sentences
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I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
But this idea has been bastardized to the point of thinking that life knows that we humans are putzes and will clean up our mess.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
“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
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
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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