Definition of "bowdlerized" [bowdlerized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerize. (verb)

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• "Of course, many people are aware of Shakespeare's crudity (certainly Thomas Bowdler was, when he presented his expurgated version of Shakespeare's plays in the 19th century-hence the word bowdlerized)."
• "Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler."
• "Tristero doesn't appear to know what libertarianism is, having confused it with some kind of bowdlerized anarchism."