bastardising

If you will forgive the bastardising of one of Muhammad Ali's finest bon mots, Robbie Keane flits like a butterfly but still stings like a bee.

Aston Villa's Robbie Keane steals the show on return to his alma mater 2012

"The HRC is bastardising the ability of black people to confront their experiential exigencies."

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

It is yet another example of a politically retarded despot, bastardising Islam to suit his purposes.

The teddy bear sentence was not disproportionate 2007

I am sick of fashion and trends bastardising everything I love.

sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2007

In China, says this Business Standard story, they're bastardising North Indian cuisine.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Apparently it's true of plumbers, mechanics and all manner of tradesmen (I use the non-politically correct term because not only do I hate political correctness when it comes to bastardising the asexual English language, but I also suspect that female builders, plumbers and mechanics actually do finish their DIY).

Archive 2004-05-01 Jonathan 2004

Apparently it's true of plumbers, mechanics and all manner of tradesmen (I use the non-politically correct term because not only do I hate political correctness when it comes to bastardising the asexual English language, but I also suspect that female builders, plumbers and mechanics actually do finish their DIY).

DDIY - Don't Do It Yourself Jonathan 2004

In a book on the subject, he wrote of the “disastrous effects of bastardising races” and promised “the white giants are coming”.

Plan for Aryan-style baby farm 2004

On one level, the current album is an engaging aural travelogue of the Anglo-American power trio's Near and Far East tour (its title is more of the Police's pidgin-English wordplay, bastardising Zen, Jomo Kenyatta and monde, the French word for world).

Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

What herald can say this without bastardising the second Earl of Northumberland?

Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852