bowdlerization

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But were the bowdlerizations of tacos and tres leches cake harmless fun gone awry, or a sign of more fundamental problems in the beloved reality competition series?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Not all of the early published versions meet modern standards of textual accuracy or authenticity, but this hardly justifies condemning them all as bowdlerizations.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2011

Abridgments, bowdlerizations, fine bindings, one-volume editions of Pepys have appeared in surfeit.

From Time Magazine Archive

It should not be surprising, however, that Richardson failed to achieve the "successful" expurgations found in Victorian bowdlerizations of his novel.

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