0 If something is bastardized, it has been changed in such a way that it no longer represents the values and qualities that it is intended to represent:
Some experts say the restored film is a bastardized version.
I made a bastardized version of a seafood marinara using tinned tuna.
Two members of the band left, but the others tried to keep it going in a fairly bastardized form.
The Tiffany glass lamp has been bastardized into plastic lamps in chain restaurants engulfed by potted ferns.