BASTARDIZED Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

bastardized

verb

Definition of bastardized

past tense of bastardize

as in degraded

to lower in character, dignity, or quality bastardize the art form by adapting it to popular taste

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Recent Examples of bastardized This is what happens when men let their beloved sports be bastardized by Stanley-succin' mama bears. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Our ideals have been bastardized. — William Mersey, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026 Short’s personality and complexity, attributes long discarded as her life became bastardized, stand in stark contrast to the inhumanity of her death. — Nathan Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026 The events meant to bring us together, like the Super Bowl or March Madness, have been bastardized into vehicles for ruinous addiction. — MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025

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Nothing has degraded more for Latino men, however, than the simple pleasures of life.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Highly active variants quickly degraded under thermal stress, and stable variants operated far too slowly to be commercially viable.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of degraded

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Continue reading … HARD LEFT PIVOT — Newsom says Electoral College has 'perverted' US politics in fiery interview.

— , FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026

Definition of perverted

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The familiarity of Havaianas is subverted thanks to MM6 with two unique expressions.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
The decision to launch a separate block of programming aimed at those viewers, filled with raunchy cartoons that actively subverted nostalgia and violent anime that couldn’t be shown during daytime hours, was logical.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of subverted

Verb

Whichever one remains standing will be wounded and weakened, and the human forces can then finish that monster off.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
From May through August, when technology weakened, other sectors stepped up, allowing RSP to continue higher and eventually reach the upside target from its own inverse head-and-shoulders pattern.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of weakened

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The decision blessed the Florida Legislature’s mid-decade redistricting, which diluted a majority Black district in South Florida expected to be represented come January by Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who is white.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Unfortunately, Volvo also fitted steering that feels like it has been diluted.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of diluted

Verb

The video cuts to Swift living out exactly what Johnson’s been living through, revealing that Farrell poisoned Swift, leading to her death.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
In her other case, Hogan has been accused of trying to falsify a paternity test in a custody battle with her ex-fiancé, who was not the same man who was allegedly poisoned.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of poisoned

Verb

Carney maintained this approach even as US-Canada relations deteriorated and the economic rift between the neighbors grew.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
With no unionization company-wide, the efforts of distribution workers to seek any protections have been routinely dismissed while accidents and working conditions have deteriorated at many of their plants.

— Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026

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