unexpurgated

American  

[uhn-ek-sper-gey-tid] / ʌnˈɛk spərˌgeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. (of written, filmed, or audio material) containing the original contents in their entirety; uncensored.

   an album of unexpurgated songs from an early studio recording.

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unexpurgated British  

/ ʌnˈɛkspəˌɡeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. (of a book, text, etc) not amended or censored by removing potentially offensive material

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Etymology

Origin of unexpurgated

First recorded in 1880–85; un- ¹ ( def. ) + expurgated ( def. )

Example Sentences

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unexpurgated

Pepys’s financial corruption, common enough among officials of his rank, is well known, having come out in the unexpurgated edition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

To be precise, the current attorney general, Merrick Garland, released the report, unexpurgated, unredacted and without comment or commentary.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

We’ll have to hope that some later, more enlightened generation will rectify our mistake, step off the euphemism treadmill and confront literary history in all its messy, unexpurgated glory.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

Readers had to wait another half-century for the Library of America, a nonprofit that publishes classic American literature in authoritative new editions, to release an unexpurgated version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

And there was something in her, an unexpurgated vestige of vulgarity that made a strenuous attempt at proving that Snooks was not so very bad a name after all.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells