Made illegitimate, impure, inferior, or corrupted; debased in quality or authenticity (American spelling).
Past tense and past participle of bastardize. The -ed ending marks completed action, while -ize is the American English verb-forming suffix from Greek.
Jazz musicians faced fierce criticism for 'bastardizing' classical music, yet this 'bastardized' music created something revolutionary—showing how insults about mixing actually describe cultural innovation.
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