bastardization
Britishnoun
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the act of bastardizing
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an initiation ceremony in a school or military unit, esp one involving brutality
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brutality or bullying
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Together with Natalie, we watched a “scriptment,” which is basically a script/treatment bastardization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2021
In fact, it’s a bastardization of both reparations and the particular social policy that’s aimed at addressing inequality.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2019
Instead of printing them with your initials—that’s a bit naff, right?—why not emblazon them with a favorite poem, or a bastardization thereof:
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015
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
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