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Definition of "bowdlerizing" []

  • Present participle of bowdlerize. (verb)

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Use "bowdlerizing" in a sentence
  • "Since then, the act of editing or removing offensive content has been deemed "bowdlerizing" and it has taken place many times."
  • "Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like."
  • "They cannot do that by bowdlerizing classic literature, by pretending that bad things never happened and that we live in a cotton-candy world."
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