Verb (used with object), : to sanitize a document before releasing it to the press. From Dictionary.com.
TRC a "sanitised" version of the report of the so-called Skweyiya. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Asked about his successes, Mogoba says he has "sanitised" the party. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Where would be the romance of rallying publicly in such a "sanitised" venue?. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
Edited to add: Jimbo's "sanitised" version of his vid doesn't even make it into the ratings!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The identity of the couple, together with other details, had been "sanitised" from the report, AUSTRAC said. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
Altona resident Jason Price said he wanted more information on incidents when they occurred, rather than "sanitised" reports. From Wordnik.com. [Star News Group] Reference
But Hillsborough Family Support Group president Trevor Hicks said they would be seeking assurances any documents had not been "sanitised". From Wordnik.com. [icLiverpool] Reference
'They've sanitised the place,' Hal said in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
It is an extraordinary play that often we see sanitised. From Wordnik.com. [After Tony Blair and Brian Clough, Michael Sheen to play Hamlet] Reference
Rapport that the ANC had submitted a sanitised version of the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC ON TRC FINDINGS ON SKWEYIYA COMMISSION REPORT] Reference
"We were forced to write the sanitised version of the truth,". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Death still comes to us all, but now as a sanitised stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life] Reference
The remake looks to be a lot more sanitised than the original. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: I Spit On Your Grave remake trailer online] Reference
I shudder when I see Adams and McGuiness all sanitised and accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
I like that country sense, balances out my sanitised view of Singapore. From Wordnik.com. [whiteplum Diary Entry] Reference
Absolutely, battlefields must be made into areas utterly sanitised of the media. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But, I suspect it will be a very sanitised version to suit most people's palate. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with the Maker of Amazing Grace] Reference
She said the house had been sanitised and disinfected once all the waste had gone. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The first was an attraction to a particularly sanitised version of England's past. From Wordnik.com. [Nostalgia, Marxism and Miss Marple] Reference
So safe and sanitised you are in absolutely no danger of actually feeling anything. From Wordnik.com. [Hollow] Reference
But it was soon apparent that the team were providing sanitised banter for the cameras. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Moyles on TV – a good thing?] Reference
He said the commission could not preserve a "sanitised silence" as it was not a judicial body. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So we're off to BBC2 for half an hour of a sanitised, humble, media-trained Alex on You're Fired!. From Wordnik.com. [The Apprentice - week six live blog] Reference
But the graph shows the sanitised Department of Health graph of “abortion rate per 1,000 population”. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
"It recognises a sanitised Western form of customary marriage which is simply not the real McCoy," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The robust and unsentimental realism of the BCP funeral service is better than modern sanitised sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life] Reference
Having so thoroughly misrepresented and sanitised Hamas, Sir Jeremy then blamed Israel for its own victimisation. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jeremy Greenstock says Hamas is only about ‘resistance’] Reference
Qwelane said newspapers would not print reporters 'eye-witness accounts but used the official, sanitised version. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No, not the sanitised images in our nursery-maid media, but the true life horrors – corpses of kids by the truckload. From Wordnik.com. [The AfPak Blues] Reference
You can see the trailer for I Spit On Your Grave over at Apple Trailers in sanitised, crisp and clean, high definition. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: I Spit On Your Grave remake trailer online] Reference
You prattle on like a silly schoolboy under the delusion that war can be clean and sanitised with nobody getting killed. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
August 1996 submission to the TRC was a sanitised version of the full report revealed by Rapport at the weekend, she said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The American mass media is so censored and sanitised that you've got to give him some credit for saying it how he feels it. From Wordnik.com. ["George Bush doesn't care about black people"] Reference
In fact, walking through a supermarket the presence of food is almost imperceptible, so sanitised and packaged are the offerings. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph of Gluttony] Reference
Harriett Harman's household must only function on a vocabulary of around 150 acceptable words and a small group of sanitised phrases. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
She also wondered whether “real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues.”. From Wordnik.com. [A landscape of risk and potential] Reference
The dead, though few, were publicly lamented - so alien to this sanitised world of ours is random, violent death through force of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
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