Bowdlerization

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Expurgation of offensive or indelicate passages or words from an edited book or writing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
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  • noun. the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent
  • noun. written material that has been bowdlerized
  • Word Usage
    "Reuters spoke to Google, and the company responded in a statement that the enforced bowdlerization was indeed intentional:"
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