bowdlerize

Example Sentences

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But, as Samartzis admitted with a grin, bowdlerizing wind from the breeziest place in the world wasn’t very authentic.

From New York Times

Bowdler’s work fell out of print, his name forgotten except as a synonym for all the purse-lipped virtue vandals who would “bowdlerize” great books in the name of protecting children.

From Washington Post

Her 13th book of adult fiction is called “A Children’s Bible” — a clever self-undercutting that suggests an all-encompassing theory of everything while also promising simplicity, reduced scale, even a certain bowdlerizing.

From New York Times

Catalan secessionists bowdlerize history in order to weaponize it.

From Washington Post

In that way of overprotective parents, I used to skip this passage, before my kids were old enough to catch me bowdlerizing.

From The New Yorker