Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of declaring or of rendering bastard or illegitimate.
Wiktionary
- n. A degradation of a language caused by the passage of time or geographical remoteness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An act that debases or corrupts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an act that debases or corrupts
- n. declaring or rendering bastard
Examples
“Governors Island hamlet called Goverthing (a bastardization of a Dutch word).”
“The item that was easiest to spot the differences between the Irish original and our bastardization was the soda bread.”
“I'm not saying the film looks wonderful, AT ALL, but it's far from 'bastardization' of the book, as it never intended to use the story at all”
“OpEdNews - Quicklink: Limbaugh misquotes Constitution while arguing Obama policies are 'bastardization' of Constitution.”
“Limbaugh misquotes Constitution while arguing Obama policies are 'bastardization' of Constitution.”
“KB: So this "bastardization" led you to erect and paint the Bruno S Island Acting School into the blueprints of the Louvre?”
Kimberly Brooks: Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History
“The "bastardization" of Latinos with this cancerous American culture could carry a decimating price.”
“I feel a need to pre-emptively defend myself here: I use "bastardization" precisely because it is itself a bastardization.”
Today at Stanford Law School: "How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse."
“• The "bastardization" of public art in Harrisburg”
“-- Rush Limbaugh, inaccurately citing the Constitution after accusing Obama of "bastardization" of the Constitution.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bastardization’.
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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List for Test Day
heresy, reversion, predilection, pedagogy, disparate, virtuous, refurbish, efficaciously, provenance, heckler, amorphous, epitome and 236 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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spongiform, stochastic, bibliobibuli, gangliest, macadamization, orchidaceous, fructiferous, phatically, persiflage, caliginous, helical, tracery and 72 more...
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Malakaiii's Words
anemone, miasma, sardonic, bludgeon, instantaneous, bastardization, bibliophile, catharsis, superfluous, heliotrope
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pomegranate's Words
cataclysm, apocalypse, catharsis, boggle, coriander, sagebrush, sacristy, centripetal, antidote, anecdote, man-who story, hirsute and 61 more...
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