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bastardize or -ise Verb [-izing, -ized] or -ising, -ised 1. to debase 2. to declare illegitimate
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| American youth organizations adopt and bastardize Indian imagery. Like the Americans, too, we bastardize our language with politically-correct neologisms; we call this Dummdeutsch ("dumb German"). In reclaiming this role, Willa is (re) affirming her importance in the Nedeed-controlled family, a domain which would seek to bastardize and depreciate the incalculable worth of a good wife and mother. |
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