G-rated

[jee-rey-tid]

adjective

1. (of a motion picture) deemed suitable for viewers of all ages.

   a G-rated film.

2. innocent; inoffensive: a G-rated first date.

   G-rated language;

   a G-rated first date.

Word History and Origins

Origin of G-rated¹

First recorded in 1965–70; G-(eneral) ( def. ) + rate ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Even at its most promising, well-publicized peak, the San Francisco-based company OneTaste wasn’t exactly a G-rated enterprise.

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I’d just finished having lunch with Richard Farnsworth, the unlikely star of the most unlikely David Lynch movie, “The Straight Story,” a G-rated gem about an old-timer who, after hearing that his estranged brother is dying, hops on a tractor lawnmower to see him one last time.

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“That Mets team is playing really good baseball,” manager Dave Roberts said, keeping his language G-rated.

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Also, my cookbooks would be G-rated, while this memoir could be rated R.

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He loved children, and his more G-rated drawings — with faint inflection of Robert Hargreaves’s Mr. Men and Little Miss series — have been grafted onto many books for them, one by his sister Kay Haring.

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