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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bastardise .
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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It is of course a kind of bastardised, runty form of business-speak full of words like
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My bodega of choice wasn't as insalubrious as Kemp's fictional haunt – a makeshift bar called Al's Backyard – but it was traditional enough to quell rumblings that San Juan is turning into a bastardised version of Miami.
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I want to write his name, Eadweard, like Muybridge bastardised his.
My Favorite Gorey Book, Translated Into Spanish | clusterflock 2009
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The sooner we lose this corrupt bastardised excuse for a government the better.
NHS bans on operations gamble with patients' health, senior surgeon warns 2011
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People who love curry so much that they join clubs are unlikely to pick the bastardised dish, invented in Glasgow, which entailed adding Campbell'scorrect tomato soup to placate the weedy UK palate.
Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh | Barbara Ellen 2011
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A live action version would just cost too much, let alone a bastardised TV version.
The Hughes Brothers Negotiating Deal to Direct the Live-Action Akira Remake | /Film 2010
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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 2011
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If you are a Bangladeshi, or a Czech, you might want that too — an ability to communicate with your driver, in the genially bastardised lingua franca of this country, English, for want of an alternative.
Is it really racist to want an English-speaking cab driver? 2010
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Karadzic, who is conducting his own defence, is challenging the legitimacy of the ICTY (a United Nations tribunal) and has referred tothe court as a bastardised judicial system [which] is representing itself falsely as a court of the international community, when it is in fact a court of NATO whose aim is to liquidate me.
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Karadzic, who is conducting his own defence, is challenging the legitimacy of the ICTY (a United Nations tribunal) and has referred tothe court as a bastardised judicial system [which] is representing itself falsely as a court of the international community, when it is in fact a court of NATO whose aim is to liquidate me.
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