bowdlerisation

NOUN
  1. written material that has been bowdlerized
  2. the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

How To Use bowdlerisation In A Sentence

  • ‘The music is a bowdlerisation of Handel's coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest,’ she says, which we presume is a bad thing.
  • The only justification which can be advanced for such bowdlerisation is undeniable necessity, and this leads on to the third and last aspect of Harker's critique.
  • In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
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