bowdlerize
Example Sentences
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In most of these entertainments, though, the animals primarily come across as people in cutesy, bowdlerized animal drag.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Also, and not incidentally, the river is named for the tribe whose chief’s bowdlerized name became that of the city.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2020
The book also expertly spoofs creative-class bullshit, bowdlerized theory filtered through millennial upspeak.
From The New Yorker • May 21, 2019
Charlotte bowdlerized one of Emily’s poems and tried to spin Emily as a primitive in her introduction to the 1850 reissue of her sisters’ novels.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2016
But such as held the New York stage in the past season were timorously constructed, bowdlerized by stage managers and, for the most part, poorly acted.
From The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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