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Meanings of bastardisation in English

An act that debases or corrupts.

Synonyms
Examples for "bastardization"
Examples for "bastardization"
1
It was a bastardization of the software they used in the lab.
Ape House
2
It is a distant bastardization of Terran English with avast supplemental vocabulary.
Space Master, GM Book
3
The design was a bastardization of Etruscan, Greek, and Egyptian architecture.
Lily of the Nile
4
The technology was a bastardization of medical nanonic packages, sending filaments to merge with her spinal cord.
The Neutronium Alchemist
5
They grow the geisha variety of coffee plant-likelya bastardization of Gesha, in Ethiopia, where the variety originated.
Wired
Usage of bastardisation in English
1
It's nothing but a bastardisation of the law for those who pull the strings from behind.
The South African
2
World War Z, allegedly a bastardisation of Max Brooks's novel, seemed to be heading for a critical roasting.
The Irish Times
3
South Africans have yet again been treated to a grotesque bastardisation of the idea of a state of the nation address.
The South African
4
I'm not sure either, whether it's just a bit of Euro-bastardisation of cushion or they really intended the play on "cushy number".
The Irish Times
5
They are merely crude, phonetic bastardisations of the Irish words.
The Irish Times
Frequent collocations
Bastardisation through the time