Meaning

To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate..

Definitions by Sense

1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
3. To beget out of wedlock.

Example Sentences

Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.

The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact.

The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.

2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5, The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.

I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

Word Forms

• bastardizes
• bastardizing
• bastardized
• bastardise

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