Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arts) deriving from more than one source or style.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bastardize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deriving from more than one source or style
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Examples
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Harry Potter is a fantasy series that raps off its “spells” in bastardized Latin and never addresses the question of Deity or religious worship.
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So instead of using an existing Latin word, they instead invented a NEW Latin word bastardized from two very different Greek words.
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Per Madison's quote above, any and all decisions reached by the Court's in any state in this nation must be considered with the intent of the founders also in mind above all else, otherwise we do not have Constitutional government, we have a "bastardized" form of it.
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I hope you can allow yourself to suffer through this 'bastardized' material to see the true worth in changing things for the sake of film.
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I then kind of bastardized it and accidentally called my mom's dog a "special needs snowflake" which apparently offended her.
Even professors can be special, special snowflakes StyleyGeek 2009
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Per Madison's quote above, any and all decisions reached by the Court's in any state in this nation must be considered with the intent of the founders also in mind above all else, otherwise we do not have Constitutional government, we have a "bastardized" form of it.
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However, I am the only English-speaking person in my colonia, so I have to use my "bastardized" Spanish.
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However, I am the only English-speaking person in my colonia, so I have to use my "bastardized" Spanish.
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However, I am the only English-speaking person in my colonia, so I have to use my "bastardized" Spanish.
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But more and more homosexual pairs are becoming parents, which creates a paradox: if gays can have children but cannot marry, what kind of bastardized definition of family is society imposing on their offspring?
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