Stephen and Katherine...decided to bowdlerize all of the library’s copies of formerly banned books. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.mentalfloss.com/trivia/vocab/2007/01/26/bowdlerize-v/]
bowdlerize a novel. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His actions did spawn the term "bowdlerize," which means to gut a work of literature. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
The above excerpt, “Hamlet,” illustrates how such lingual poverty might bowdlerize the legacy of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Review 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
He Anglicized the name -- Yelyena into Ellaynah -- just as it had been his idea to reduce "Alleluia" to Allie and bowdlerize himself, Cohen from Warsaw, into Cone. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
I bowdlerize the comment, which concluded with a request that I spare him further examples of local superstition, a subject with which he was only too well acquainted. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
It doesn't matter whether we bowdlerize the lyrics, the musical style has nothing familiar to them other than a major scale and it will not strike them as comfortable or familiar unless they are lapsed Luterans. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary Worship] Reference
Word for the Day, Monday, April 12, 2010 -- bowdlerize. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Dictionaries usually translate this as ` to bowdlerize. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference
I have no wish to bowdlerize Sir Richard Steele, his ways and words. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars synonym see BELLIGERENT bowdlerize. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-10-01] Reference
The majority strict governments currently have the technological way to bowdlerize the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Shaister Miester Do Da] Reference
A number of attempts have been made to bowdlerize this essential human story but they didn't work. From Wordnik.com. [The Lehigh Valley] Reference
She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school. From Wordnik.com. [Joanna Godden] Reference
Pluggers are so scandalized by extremely mild swear words that they bowdlerize classic movie quotes, even in their own minds. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Curmudgeon] Reference
I cannot, unfortunately, bowdlerize the best of these without spoiling them, so I will endeavor to give a few examples of the less forceful. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
Later, when the novel appeared in book form, the Comstocks began an action to have it suppressed, and forced the publisher to bowdlerize it. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
But just because some mud slinging has come my way, doesn't mean I will bowdlerize my observations just to avoid the diatribe of some disgruntled fans. From Wordnik.com. [Express & Star] Reference
Sure, we bowdlerize quotes and accuse non-racist people of secretly harboring Orval Faubus tendencies, but we do it with élan and a journalism school degree. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
Does that mean that a tweet saying, "Henri Rideau is buried alive under the rubble at his home, 124 Rue Cayenne" will only be distributed after someone takes the time to bowdlerize it to read, "- is buried alive under the rubble at -"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
Formerly Eels were allowed to bowdlerize history in some shady corner of the archive. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Texas hold internet tournaments inohio transplants:bowdlerize Wilcox incontrovertible thoroughfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Whose vision of the Constitution produces spiffier diagrams?] Reference
"You can't do it," she concluded, "unless you are prepared to keep half the world's literature away from the children, scrap half your music, edit your museums and your picture galleries; bowdlerize your Old. From Wordnik.com. [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference
Proletarian and petty bourgeois strata are recognising in growing numbers that they have become victims of the decrepit party economy, if not victims of party-political and trade union confidence tricks and, as they still believe deep down in the rightness and future of the socialist idea, are turning to movements which lead them up the garden path of a liberation without struggle, a paradise for which they need do nothing: to the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, the Free-country Free-money movement of Silvio Osell, the work co-operatives which bowdlerize the ideas of councils, to the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler, the band of rebels who deny every organisation, or the Serious Bible-Searchers who hope for pie in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution by Ottle Ruhle (Part 3)] Reference
I'd have to bowdlerize it. From Wordnik.com. [they smile when they are low] Reference
(though currently we bleep rather than bowdlerize) glower from the safe retrospect of history at puritanical editor Thomas Bowdler and his expurgations of "indelicacies" from the works of Shakespeare and other plain speakers. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
(I primly bowdlerize.). From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
Dawg does bowdlerize. it's a silly practice. From Wordnik.com. [You keep using that phrase "free speech" ...] Reference
bowdlerize gouging toils,formulated schoolers,…. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brokaw: Hussein Execution ‘Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare Out Of The Old American West’] Reference
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