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Or the more common bastardization: "The end justifies the means."

We say: Put an end to all bastardization!

Edmund protested his bastardization bitterly in 1347, but was apparently ignored.

What kind of civilization allowed the free use of a bastardization like lemme?

"Somebody stick a knife in the poor bastardization!"

Other critics saw Jewish artists contributing to France's "cultural bastardization."

"It's got to be a bastardization of 'harass you.' "

This, according to some, was equal to bastardization of the Greek cuisine with European elements.

"He was an engineer, and gray wizardry is the sort of bastardization that could destroy us all.

But Slam was such a bastardization of soccer that loving the video game didn't change my feelings about the sport.

As far as I can tell, the American version is a bastardization of that sandwich."

It's a bastardization of a style created by Louis Armstrong, whose music was anything but glib.

This man was called a "boosway", a bastardization of the French term bourgeoisie.

Berg even called the film a "bastardization."

Instead, they would have preferred to fight to the last man and woman, chosen defeat over the hybridization and bastardization of their blood.

A bastardization of the word "soldier"

The frigate was a bastardization of Starfleet design.

Polygamous marriages were dissolved resulting in the bastardization of the children from these African traditional marriages.

"With popularity comes bastardization," said Thomas Bradley, a spokesman for the Westminster club.

They call it bastardization of species ..." Jen remembered laughing at that point.

It's one hell of a bastardization of 'on-rails', I agree.

The term "dead reckoning" is a bastardization of "ded.

The word 'Raróg' seems to be a late bastardization of the name Svarog.

Dance pundits and club hipsters lambasted break-beat-based techno as a bastardization of the form.

Bastardisation or bastardization may refer to:

A further bastardisation scandal was exposed in 1983.

The bastardisation and pussification of Bond is almost complete.

She embellished this with "a bit of comic bastardisation of the English language" and won the part.

Some Maori leaders thought it was "inappropriate" and a "bastardisation" of the traditional war cry, despite its popularity.

A great leap forward for the continual alienation of the electorate and the bastardisation of democracy.

She's up there with designer vaginas and the pussycat dolls - a cynical bastardisation of what the real fight for women's equality is about.

Bastardisation or bastardization may refer to:

Bastardisation personified.

The dog thinks that if you're looking for a total bastardisation of great kids lit then look no further than Fantastic Mr Fox.

The bastardisation of language (cf. Gramsci, who knew what he was talking about) in pursuit of political ends is a pernicious thing.

It is suspected that the name is a bastardisation of 'hertjesdag' (Deer Day).

Bastardisation (disambiguation)

The line itself is a bastardisation of a line from "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles.

Corruption or bastardisation are terms popularly used to refer to certain changes in language which originate from human error or alleged prescriptively incorrect usage.

And there's more bastardisation of the classics to come: Pride And Prejudice And Zombies anyone?

Text bastardisation refers to an unrelated process, namely the alteration and publication of a text in a way inconsistent with the original purpose or the author's intention.

The review at A Gilbert and Sullivan Discography said: "This is not an updating of these pieces, it is a bastardisation.

He took Alvin Patterson as a stage name, and acquired the nickname "Seeco" as a bastardisation of his birth name Francisco.

After Theory (2003) represents a kind of about-face: an indictment of current cultural and literary theory, and what Eagleton regards as the bastardisation of both.

Richard III is alleged to have consolidated his power by eliminating his brother's children, who could even after their bastardisation serve as figureheads or incentives to rebellions.

According to Woodward, the name Ragaan was 'a bastardisation' of Pagaan, the ancient capital of Burma.

The origin of the term poutine is unclear, but it might be a bastardisation of "pudding"; râpé, -e is French for "grated".

Over its history ADFA has been criticised for its cost of operation and for instances of cadet misbehaviour - bastardisation.

British families have lived in Jerez since the 1700s and the founding of its great sherry houses (sherry, of course, being our bastardisation of the word Jerez).

The bastardisation of Bond happened from the first movies when, for an obvious example, he started driving an Aston Martin instead of a Bentley, like he did in the books.