0 If something is bastardized, it has been changed in such a way that it no longer represents the values and qualities that it is intended to represent: --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