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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Perhaps, then, what captivates us is a kind of redemption story—the seductive idea that technology can not only repair nature but absolve us for having degraded it.

— Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
Israel’s military campaigns have significantly degraded Hezbollah, while public opinion in Lebanon has increasingly turned against the group, blaming it for repeatedly dragging the country into unnecessary wars.

— Anthony Wanis-St John, The Conversation, 10 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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The Sedition Act of 1918, which subverted the Bill of Rights, imposed penalties for anti-government expression.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 1 July 2026
Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 June 2026

Definition of subverted

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All three, the panel noted, have weakened or dropped earlier pledges to halt development on their own if certain red lines came into view, and in recent years softened their resistance to military uses.

— Harry Booth, Time, 7 July 2026
It is weakened by surprises, side channels, performative challenge and unclear authority.

— David Ribott, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of weakened

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Heavy rains that reached over a foot in some locations during the July 4 holiday weekend initially diluted nitrate levels, CIWW said, dropping them to 4 milligrams per liter in the Raccoon River.

— Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register, 9 July 2026
Others must be diluted and applied with a home garden sprayer.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026

Definition of diluted

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Bowles told jurors Millete was angry at May over her yearlong affair with another man and likely poisoned her with the toxic plant hemlock.

— Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
Many of her victims were poisoned and buried around the boarding house, with Puente cashing their social security checks.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 7 July 2026

Definition of poisoned

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When that piano deteriorated, a player piano was secured for the plaza in June 2025, along with 25 piano rolls to play during events.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Her husband Kennus Gowans has stood by her side as her health deteriorated over the last few years.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026

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