bowdlerize
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On the company website, entire words were recently bowdlerised in descriptions of books it sells.
From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018
Then there was the Hollywood adaptation, which bowdlerised it even further.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2012
The latter I would have read only in a bowdlerised children's edition, but the former I was exposed to in all its warped genius.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
"No more famous work has been more mishandled, bowdlerised, dismembered and misinterpreted," he writes in The Compleat Conductor, so his performance with Scottish pianist Steven Osborne is an attempt to set the record straight.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010
There is an abundance of good anecdote, and personal foibles are not bowdlerised; but the author's taste is perfect and his attitude is frankly one of human sympathy.
From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)
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