bastardize

How To Use bastardize In A Sentence

• Local forms are endlessly trivialized, bastardized and wedded to the worst aspects of Western speculative ‘architecture’.
• The meaning of the term is now completely misinterpreted and bastardized.
• We send our soldiers off, sometimes to die, to tell people that ours is the best damn government in the world, so we can't bastardize that by not letting the people have their say," she said. Md. Del. Tiffany Alston explains her crisis of conscience over same-sex marriage
• The basic idea, which I’m going to horribly bastardize, is that social power is exerted not just through obvious physical or economic coercion, but also in the ways information is categorized and used. They Argued With Her? In Academia!?
• A notable feature of pidgins is lack of grammatical complexity; for this reason, they are often referred to at best as simple or simplified languages, at worst as bastardized or broken forms of another language.
• This was the hamam of the Harem, what you would call a steam bath and the Europeans bastardized into the phrase Turkish baths. The Thieves of Darkness
• But my abso-bloody-lutely favourite way of swearing is to use bastardised tmesis - the splitting up of a compound word into parts, and then slotting a rude word in the middle.
• In, Kutcher — who isn't wearing his wedding ring and much was made of that by the chattering/blogging class — states, "There is no gatekeeper of the truth ... people can bastardize the truth in any way, shape or form that they want and spread that around the world. Ashton Kutcher: People Can Bastardize the Truth
• The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.
• The Two and a Half Men star then posted a video online last month saying "people can bastardize the truth," seemingly referencing rumors of their impending split. Demi Moore Divorcing Ashton Kutcher; He Responds on Twitter