Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of declaring or of rendering bastard or illegitimate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An act that debases or corrupts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
degradation of alanguage caused by thepassage oftime orgeographical remoteness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act that debases or corrupts
- noun declaring or rendering bastard
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Examples
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Governors Island hamlet called Goverthing (a bastardization of a Dutch word).
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The item that was easiest to spot the differences between the Irish original and our bastardization was the soda bread.
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I'm not saying the film looks wonderful, AT ALL, but it's far from 'bastardization' of the book, as it never intended to use the story at all
New Photos: Jim Carrey is Harry Potter in Yes Man | /Film 2008
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KB: So this "bastardization" led you to erect and paint the Bruno S Island Acting School into the blueprints of the Louvre?
Kimberly Brooks: Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History 2010
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Limbaugh misquotes Constitution while arguing Obama policies are 'bastardization' of Constitution.
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Limbaugh misquotes Constitution while arguing Obama policies are 'bastardization' of Constitution.
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The "bastardization" of Latinos with this cancerous American culture could carry a decimating price.
The WGA Strike Is Almost Over! AKA Dartflix Edition #30 Dart Adams 2008
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KB: So this "bastardization" led you to erect and paint the Bruno S Island Acting School into the blueprints of the Louvre?
Kimberly Brooks: Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History 2008
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The "bastardization" of Latinos with this cancerous American culture could carry a decimating price.
Mom, part II 2007
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I feel a need to pre-emptively defend myself here: I use "bastardization" precisely because it is itself a bastardization.
Today at Stanford Law School: "How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse." Ann Althouse 2007
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