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- noun Plural form of
bastardisation .
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Examples
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After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson, a Pocket Book edition of Dorothy Hughes' In a Lonely Place, an ordinary tpb of George Higgins' The Friends of Eddie Coyle could not love Ulmer's 'The Black Cat', even if he's a huge Poe fan, - which I also am, having two separate hardback complete works, - and even if he's been known to resent some bastardisations of Poe.
Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The only food options were the Vietnamese version of the pot noodle - MSG-packed bastardisations of pho (the country's famous noodle soup dish) which smelled like fetid school canteens - or some stale-looking baguettes from a glass cabinet not unused to the company of flies.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk Rosie Birkett 2010
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Again you display the arrogance that purports to be able to discern the 'true' message apart from the 'bastardisations' of all those sects and factions.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Academy formed to protect English language from 'txt spk' AN Academy of English is being formed by the Queen's English Society, to protect the language from impurities, bastardisations and the horrors introduced by the text-speak generation, The Times reported.
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Again you display the arrogance that purports to be able to discern the 'true' message apart from the 'bastardisations' of all those sects and factions.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Queen's English Society, to protect the language from impurities, bastardisations and the horrors introduced by the text-speak generation ....
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When I first moved to Glasgow the various bastardisations of English grammar and pronunciation that comprised the local dialect infuriated me.
unknown title 2009
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Even if I remember correctly that they're only bastardisations of paegan festivals.
TPN :: GDay World 2009
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Let It Bleep: Dancefloor dishevelment, electronic emissions and bassbin bastardisations
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Still, other readers might be interested in seeing just what new and grammatically impossible bastardisations of the English language Bush could spew forth next.
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