bastardization

British  

/ ˌbæs-, ˌbɑːstədaɪˈzeɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of bastardizing

2. 1. an initiation ceremony in a school or military unit, esp one involving brutality

   2. brutality or bullying

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Example Sentences

To younger viewers sorting through a waning obsession with all things '90s, here's a sketch troupe that played a role in defining the era by marrying that decade's bastardization of irony with absurdism.

From Salon • May 20, 2022

And there’s no way that you can look at the gradual bastardization of the word and tell me otherwise, though of course Stefan is our resident words expert here.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021

Together with Natalie, we watched a “scriptment,” which is basically a script/treatment bastardization.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2021

Or it might be a Restoration-era bastardization that a fellow named Lewis Theobald tried to pass off as the genuine article more than 100 years later, with some edits of his own.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2011

“It is a bastardization of our language,” she said, “which in Puerto Rico is Spanish.”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago