| The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself. |
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| Their manager then bastardised their songs and tweaked them to make them top 40 friendly. |
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| Rumours have swirled that the financiers will release it in a bastardised version later this year. |
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| Deep soul, from the American South, what in the end was bastardised into Northern Soul. |
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| These politicians have so much bastardised democracy to the extent that the average Nigerian on street sees no reason in exercising their civic rights. |
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| Cancer Bats continued the sonic carnage in CF10 with their scathing, bastardised boogie. |
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| The problem is that the balti has become so bastardised as a dish that people now refer to any curry as a balti. |
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| But in Aadhe Adhure, the language is not bastardised and the dialogues are written in a contemporary manner. |
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| On 24 June the minister for local government chose to withdraw his text rather than see it adopted in a bastardised form, as had happened when the act setting up the National Human Rights Commission was adopted in April. |
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| At the very moment that our language is being bastardised by Anglo-Saxon expressions, it is to be undermined from within by having to compete with local dialects. |
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| The loss of the old place names was obscuring the intellectual heritage of the indigenous people and either replacing it with meaningless bastardised terms or imposing a foreign cultural framework on the landscape. |
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| It promises bastardised legitimacy of the writer. |
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| On the quaint streets of this neighbourhood, you are unlikely to find kitsch souvenir shops, bastardised baguette-sandwich stalls or currency bureaux. |
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| It would seem that the very word Socialist has become bastardised amongst many in the party, who seem only too willing to follow a consenus set by the Tory press. |
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