bowdlerize
verb (used with object)
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
bowdlerizer
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a word derived from
bowdlerize.
Example Sentences
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No bowdlerizer has ever confessed to any problems for himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
No bowdlerizer, Editor Saunders lets Gibbon have his say.
From Time Magazine Archive
