How To Use Bastardised In A Sentence
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Throughout the years, the idea of ‘punk rock ‘became both idealized and bastardized.’
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It is hard to imagine something more cynical than the way the administration has bastardized and abused the meaning of ‘patriotism’ to get the rest of us to look the other way while their friends raid the treasury.
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But over the years, this was bastardized to suit successive tenants, who used it as a theater, art-film house and commercial cinema.
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So it's appropriate that a new, bastardised style of hip-hop, known as "baile funk", is being born out of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Insider's guide to music pilgrimages: Hip-hop, dance, disco, electro
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Their manager then bastardised their songs and tweaked them to make them top 40 friendly.
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Some are based on European approximations of local African place names - often such bastardised versions of the originals that they are barely recognisable.
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‘The form has become bastardized, but eventually people will realize they won't get rich doing this - there are too many of them - and the good teachers will remain,’ he said.
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Not flamboyante not one of Ledom's crossbred bastardized beautiful miracle blossoms, but a perky little button of a dried-up marigold.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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It was difficult for him to read, set in some bastardized version of his language he barely understood, but he thought it might be rare, and enjoyed it anyway.
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Of course you deserve more fitting punishments than having your pictures bastardized, but I'm feeling quite benevolent.
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All this over some bastardized rock-electronica, the sound of someone trying desperately to be contemporary.
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Must be nice: getting a fat royalty dividend each and every time you have your legacy bastardized.
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I think the globalization of hip hop has bastardized the culture a little bit, but I understand that's natural in the progression and growth of a particular type of music…
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Local forms are endlessly trivialized, bastardized and wedded to the worst aspects of Western speculative ‘architecture’.
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The meaning of the term is now completely misinterpreted and bastardized.
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And isn’t credible that Marie’s guest would say this face-to-face, even as a bastardized “Hello,” when the correct bonjour is universally known.
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‘Artificial’ is not an antonym of ‘natural,’ despite the fact that the term's been a bit bastardized to assume that connotation over the years.
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I had every intention of giving it to that son of mine until he got himself bastardized.
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The word ‘democracy’ is sadly being bastardized to such a degree that it's losing its meaning.
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True, that Christianity is “bastardized”; the term of art is syncretic, that is, it has accreted, accumulated bits and pieces of other religions as it has spread through different cultures and around the world; it’s also changed as its practioners have introduced new, and not necessarily improved, ideas.
Think Progress » Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.
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The low status of pidgin and Creole languages is generally a consequence of the fact that they have not been regarded as fully-fledged languages, but as corrupt and bastardized versions of some other language.
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* (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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It is bastardized in order to negate everything that it was intended to mean.
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The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.
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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.
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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
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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.