bowdlerize
verb (used with object)
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
unbowdlerized
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a word derived from
bowdlerize.
Example Sentences
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And so, with the release date fast approaching, Tillman persuaded Fox to do something nearly unprecedented: resubmit “The Hate U Give” to the M.P.A.A. with an unbowdlerized version of Starr’s big moment.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
Contemporary life is no fairy tale, unless you’re talking about the unbowdlerized Brothers Grimm variety, clearly one of the inspirations for these nine stories by a precocious master.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2016
This first complete, unbowdlerized collection of letters reveals Wilde as something far more profound than the talented fop of his own caricature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dialogue is literate but not precious, unbowdlerized but not prurient.
From Time Magazine Archive
His work, inevitably, had to be toned down for publication and did not appear unbowdlerized until 1921.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
