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- verb Present participle of
bowdlerize .
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Examples
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Since then, the act of editing or removing offensive content has been deemed "bowdlerizing" and it has taken place many times.
Huck Finn Expurgated And Other Censored Books (PHOTOS) Sammy Perlmutter 2011
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Since then, the act of editing or removing offensive content has been deemed "bowdlerizing" and it has taken place many times.
'Huck Finn' Has Been Expurgated The Huffington Post 2011
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Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like.
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They cannot do that by bowdlerizing classic literature, by pretending that bad things never happened and that we live in a cotton-candy world.
Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire") Valerie Strauss 2011
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The scholarly Arden footnotes both the sexual and nonsexual readings of the line, although its explanation of the latter — that she wants somebody else's beard on her chin — seems reminiscent of the puritanical bowdlerizing of editions past.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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The scholarly Arden footnotes both the sexual and nonsexual readings of the line, although its explanation of the latter — that she wants somebody else's beard on her chin — seems reminiscent of the puritanical bowdlerizing of editions past.
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Before I had children, I despised the bowdlerizing of any story.
Princess Delite Roger Sutton 2008
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Then again, part of the blame might lie with the "Tee Cee" itself, a building whose sheer cubic footage is capable of bowdlerizing practically any dirty exhibition.
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Then again, part of the blame might lie with the "Tee Cee" itself, a building whose sheer cubic footage is capable of bowdlerizing practically any dirty exhibition.
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If they weren't going to show the picture, there might be some point to bowdlerizing the description of it.
"A little girl seems to be crying, her eye bruised, with an American flag in the background and two words framing her figure: 'Liberty Weeps.'" Ann Althouse 2008
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