Word: bastardize
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...used to call my husband 'A. B.'-arrogant bastard," says Eleanor Driver. "And he was, but he was strong and dominant, and I liked that. But as the kids grew older and moved out, I got bored and depressed with Bill. He worked six days a week and brought home a briefcase every night. I kept talking about going back to school until finally Bill said, 'Quit talking about it and do it.' A little later on when the university offered me a job he said, 'Go ahead-but I want my socks washed...
...Meara, who scarcely wrinkled his Donald Duck bandito T-shirt while putting away Barry, was considered "a tough bastard, real tough" at Boston Latin. But Gauthier, one of the more rugged members of the freshman hockey team, "usually hits what he aims at," according to Barry...
...runty nosed little bastard, YOU ask ME to show my credentials? And he does step out of the truck, and the deputies could see him rockin' back and forth on his heels, drunk as a skunk, kinda fondlin' the .44 so's the deputies would know it was there...
...Hughes ordered Dietrich to retrace every step that he, Hughes, had taken on the day of the loss, to get down on his hands and knees every 25 yards along the route to inspect the ground. Adds Hughes: "He sent me the cleaning bill for his trousers, the cheap bastard...
...play's first act is the teaser, an opportunity for Pinter to play with his audience. Its opening seems typical, and yet, it's not in the "set the scene and characters" mold. Somehow the "characters" never seem to get "set". Is Max a loud-mouthed bastard or a kindly old man? Is Ruth a whore or isn't she? After one puzzlingly suggestive remark by Ruth, Lenny wails--almost as if he spoke for the audience: "Is that a proposition? Damn it, was that a proposition or wasn't it?" We demand that everyone fit in a well-known...