bastardize

Definition

To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.

Etymology

From bastard + -ize.

Example Sentences

• "Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock."
• "The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact."
• "The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program."