How To Use Bastardize In A Sentence
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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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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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Throughout the years, the idea of ‘punk rock ‘became both idealized and bastardized.’
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Local forms are endlessly trivialized, bastardized and wedded to the worst aspects of Western speculative ‘architecture’.
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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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It will turn out to be Beauprez and Holtzman all over again ... bagzzaf wrote: Don't bastardize the term libertarian by saying "I'm libertarian this, but not libertarian that ...
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
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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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All this over some bastardized rock-electronica, the sound of someone trying desperately to be contemporary.
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Think i'll give the issued webbing at batallion a try and just 'bastardise' it to my preference, definately want velcro tabs for the ammo pouches, those clips can be a pain in the arrse at times. although its changed a lot since i was in (3. 5yrs) issue webbing all the way, get a decent hippo pad as the issued one is crap and spend time your webbing right wearing a combat jacket and trying your bergan, day sack with it to.
Army Rumour Service
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How could a modern painter who prided himself on painting merely what was real -- how could he so bastardise his work as to introduce fanciful things into it?
His Masterpiece
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Well hopefully someone over at XDA-Developers (if they continue with WP7S) will bastardise this to give us a Playstation Network version (subject to appropriate meta data being available).
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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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Many critics say that that it bastardizes the French language, a suggestion born out by this rather saucy excerpt:
Will Adams: France's Eurovision 2010 Song: 'Allez! Ola! Olé!' by Jessy Matador (VIDEO)
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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
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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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‘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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Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a welborne and gentle nature: If you would have him stand in awe of shame and punishment, doe not so much enure him to it: accustome him patiently to endure sweat and cold, the sharpnesse of the wind, the heat of the sunne, and how to despise all hazards.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson.
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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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Their manager then bastardised their songs and tweaked them to make them top 40 friendly.
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The democratic institutions have been bastardize that the nation is at a precipe of one party destructive rule.
Clinton warns against al Qaeda in Nigeria
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People get offensive when another culture 'bastardizes' another's traditional dish … it happens all the time.
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Only Canadians would bastardize such wonderful food.
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JPG. .but it never ceases to amaze me how ny bastardizes and overcharges for viet food … so who knows.
A Very Early Look at OBAO’s Lunch | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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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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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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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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Could you explain how this "bastardizes" the Boston Tea Party?
BlueOregon
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But cyber-English has its limitations - and isn't about to further bastardize the language in the real world.
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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
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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.
They Argued With Her? In Academia!?
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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.
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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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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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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.
Ashton Kutcher: People Can Bastardize the Truth
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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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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
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It is bastardized in order to negate everything that it was intended to mean.
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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
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(I'm trying to be careful here) decided than from the stage, in front of the mic to bastardise the anthem by replacing the Fail with a big shout of "GAEL" and then proceeded to murder the rest of the admitted poor tune that is our anthem.
Politics.ie
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PS you may be 18 but there's no excuse for using words like 'bastardise' in polite company.
Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon
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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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The meaning of the term is now completely misinterpreted and bastardized.
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Q: Ok, but organizations bastardize copyright law all the time.
Archive 2009-08-01
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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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Don't bastardize the term libertarian by saying "I'm libertarian this, but not libertarian that ...
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I've done it for virtually my entire career and I can tell you that it is often a labour-intensive, up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege if I may bastardise a movie line.
The British Press Awards
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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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I was actually joking about bastardise being rude, but glad to see schoolboy humour isn't wasted on schoolboys.
Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon
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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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Each comment in some way excuses or encourages the terrorists 'action using this false liberalism and then bastardizes the democratic state of Israel.
Jacob Shrybman: False Liberalism as a Mask for Collusion with Radical Islam
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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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‘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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Why bastardize any film by giving it the pan and scan treatment?
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One of these intellectual tyrants, a man of great ability, when he quarrelled with any one, used to threaten to "bastardise" him, or to find the bend-sinister somewhere in his ancestry; and his experience in long genealogies made him feel assured, in the general case, of finding what he sought if he went far enough back for it.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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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.
Ashton Kutcher Talks Honesty, Integrity, Media
