“Besides, my marriage means my son is a legitimate child, not a bastard as these rumor mongers would have you believe.”

“But although her father hadn't been bad to her, he'd been a complete bastard to her mother, and she hated him for that.”

“I'm going to miss that cranky old bastard. He was a cranky old bastard, wasn't he?”

“Concepts such as hybridization and bastardization are enjoying the highest popularity.”

“This is a bastardization of intelligence and in the end is self-defeating.”

“Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.”

“Now they are being rewarded for their bastardry to our children with no requirement that they even spend it on education.”

“She is a fierce champion of equality of opportunity, having endured the bastardry of the Queensland government decades ago.”

“The only viable defence against such bastardry rests with National print media truly living up to their professional journalistic standards.”

“Acutely aware of his bastardy, Jon Snow always felt that he needed to prove himself.”

“Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared.”

“All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy.”

“Yet even the viral marketing for Basterds has come under attack.”

“I'll be sleeping with one eye open around every one of you sneaky puling horse thieving bastards.”

“In any event it is aimed at weaving you into the way of life of these hard case larrikin bastards.”

“We keep the bastards honest and we have the mechanisms to keep ourselves honest too.”