Word: bastardizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weighed nearly 340 pounds and owed thousands of dollars in taxes, student loans and credit-card debt. Cue the "Urban Hermit Plan" - a wildly dangerous scheme to subsist on little else but lentils and canned tuna. MacDonald's memoir recounts the unexpected journey he took, morphing from "Fat Bastard" to "Urban Hermit," taking his readers from Baltimore to Bosnia and back again in a tale of "starvation, hard work and blind luck...
...knowing he was!“It isn’t as though I’m surprised,” Felicity said. “The man’s father slept with every servant in the county, after all. There’s no telling how many bastard relatives Frederick has running around!”“Oh?” said The Stable Boy.***The Stable Boy and Oliver P. Swindleton met that evening in one of the neighboring county’s taverns. It was crowded. Tucked into a corner, leaning at one another...
...fraught with disappointment. I’ve traveled that road, and know that there are disappointments. You don’t always find what you’re looking for, to say the least, but sometimes things work out all right. Let’s dig in.Remixes, Mashups, Mixtapes, Bastard Pop, Radiomixes. The extent to which these musical terms, constructs, and formats have achieved ubiquity has become a truism. I mean, Christ, with the upcoming campus performance by Girl Talk and links to the Ratatat remixes being sent out over house lists, even the Harvard community...
...life of the brilliantly subversive Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray has often seemed one of chaos and dissipation. Things don't look much better up close in Rodge Glass' Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, which variously paints him as garrulous, self-centered and a "bloody devious old bastard" to boot. That's probably not the picture Gray had in mind when he agreed to let Glass, his factotum and former student, be his biographer and shouted, "Be my Boswell ... Tell the world of my genius...
...itself but it also stands at the crossroads of many other disciplines,” said Maria Tatar, a professor of Germanic languages and literature and the current Folk and Myth chair. Mitchell agreed, using a less traditional analogy.“Folklore is sometimes referred to as the bastard child that English begot on anthropology,” Mitchell said. “I wear it as a badge of honor. What they’re really trying to say is that we bridge the social sciences and humanities.”Both said that an undergraduate degree...