Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To lower in quality or character; debase.
- transitive verb To declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To declare or prove to be a bastard; stigmatize as a bastard.
- To beget out of wedlock.
- To render mongrel or hybrid; make degenerate; debase: as, “a bastardized race of the Romans,”
- To become degenerate.
- Also spelled
bastardise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
- transitive verb rare To beget out of wedlock.
- transitive verb to change something (for example, art forms) so that its value declines; to debase.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To claim or demonstrate that someone is a
bastard , orillegitimate . - verb To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to
debase . - verb To introduce debased elements into.
- verb To
beget out ofwedlock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
- verb declare a child to be illegitimate
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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"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 2011
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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."
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Q: Ok, but organizations bastardize copyright law all the time.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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"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," he said in the video.
Demi Moore Divorcing Ashton Kutcher; He Responds on Twitter 2011
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If they were just going to do a crazy hell story then do a crazy hell story, not take a name from one great Poem and bastardize it as much as possible.
Welcome To Hell SVGL 2009
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Only Canadians would bastardize such wonderful food.
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"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 2011
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Therefore people can bastardize the truth in any way, shape or truth they want, Ashton said, speaking in a low voice and directly facing the camera.
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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 2011
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