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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

His Thursday-night card games with Harpo Marx and George Burns are riots of unbowdlerized storytelling.

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