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 But, like all good things, it has been bastardized to the point of not being worth your time. — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 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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Iran has been degraded by over 13,000 strikes, but has survived and reconstituted, rather than suffering a mortal blow.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Preserving the forests that remain, while restoring those that have been degraded, may ultimately prove far more valuable than chasing ever-larger tree-planting targets alone.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026

Definition of degraded

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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
Georgia Bernstein’s unsettling directorial debut focuses on how warped and perverted those desires become when they’re taken to their insatiable extremes.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of perverted

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Researchers, educators, and policymakers questioned whether broadcasting encouraged juvenile delinquency, weakened family relationships, and gave governments and media organizations unprecedented influence over public opinion.

— Michael Edmondson, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Hochul, who weakened the state’s climate goals and signed off on new gas pipelines, is again an example.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of weakened

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In Louisiana, where Black residents make up roughly one-third of the population, a federal court had found that a post-2020 congressional map with only one majority-Black district likely diluted Black voting power.

— Juhi Doshi, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Liquid fertilizers diluted in water and applied when watering are quick to supply nutrients to plants, but need to be reapplied more often.

— Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026

Definition of diluted

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Attackers are also targeting AI solutions themselves with prompt injection attacks, poisoned datasets and other increasingly advanced tactics.

— Peter Garraghan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Later, when Saeng-gang and her mother leave the palace to hide Saeng-gang’s spirit-hearing abilities, the mother is poisoned by treats sent from the palace.

— Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026

Definition of poisoned

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Zelenskyy said their relationship had deteriorated so badly that the two could no longer work together, but provided little additional explanation for removing Fedorov.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
In the ensuing decades after District 33 absorbed McAuley, the McAuley building deteriorated, with no significant maintenance done to it and no use other than for records and equipment storage.

— Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

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