bowdlerized
Speech parts
1. bowdlerized - Adjective
2. bowdlerized - Verb
Meaning
bowdlerized
simple past and past participle of bowdlerize
bowdlerized (comparative more bowdlerized, superlative most bowdlerized)
Expurgated, especially in a comprehensive way (such as systematically throughout an entire work).
a bowdlerized edition of Shakespeare's plays
Synonyms
Examples
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. citation It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs.
My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, This mention of Elizabeth Pepys's menstruation was omitted from the bowdlerized Wheatley transcription published in 1893 and used throughout this article.
" Shake, Rattle and Roll " followed, a somewhat bowdlerized cover version of the Big Joe Turner recording citation of earlier in 1954.
The following notes have been Bowdlerized, and only capture part of what he said, and some of his humor.