Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun chiefly Brit. An act that debases or corrupts.
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- noun Alternative form of
bastardization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act that debases or corrupts
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Examples
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Collective re-training = "bastardisation" (unless the commander does it too)
Army Rumour Service 2009
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This is a Pythonisation (lispers might rightly say "bastardisation") of the restart-based condition system of Common Lisp.
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I read something this week that suggested we have an academy to protect the English language from bastardisation like the French and Spanish do.
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I really wish there was a better way to combat the bastardisation of our language.
Steele to Democrats: You have the votes, and you won, remember? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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The bastardisation of Talmud quotes, however, is normally rooted within “The Talmud Unmasked”, a classic core antisemitic text written at the end of the 19th Century by a Jew hating Russian Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Justin Praniatis, who gave evidence at the infamous Beilis blood libel trial in Kiev, 1913.
Archive 2007-07-15 2007
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The word aggregation itself is a bastardisation, Umair countered.
Beers and Innovation 5: Aggregators and Upsetters « Innovation Cloud 2007
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Sadly though, it seems, there are reader Zs who either continue buying Y's work in the hope of improvement or still inexplicably enjoy its unedited and unmitigated bastardisation of the novelistic art form.
The Latest Teacup Tempest Hal Duncan 2007
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But the history of unionism -- or at least elements of it -- in my country have made me leery because unions are as susceptible to corruption and bastardisation as any human institution and I have no time or patience for people who declare that because unions are on the side of the workers that they are for ever and always above reproach.
Progress, and various ruminations karenmiller 2007
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Sadly though, it seems, there are reader Zs who either continue buying Y's work in the hope of improvement or still inexplicably enjoy its unedited and unmitigated bastardisation of the novelistic art form.
Archive 2007-02-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The word aggregation itself is a bastardisation, Umair countered.
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