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  1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
    bowdlerize a novel

How To Use expurgate In A Sentence

  • The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated.
  • Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
  • Lord Irvine will have to console himself that his rival's unexpurgated thoughts were delivered in wartime, so muting attention to his strongest denunciation of a judiciary he deems too powerful.
  • Only an expurgated version of the novel has been published so far.
  • Earlier this year PBS distributed to its affiliates only the expurgated version of A Company of Soldiers, a Frontline documentary about American forces in Iraq, because of concerns that obscenities shouted by military personnel during an ambush might bring censure from the FCC; it released the unbleeped version only to those local stations willing to sign waivers absolving PBS of liability for any fines. Fatwa City
  • She never talked of herself, so that it were well to let it go down that when in repose, expurgated, Greek she certainly was. Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women
  • It was first published in drastically expurgated form in 1905.
  • Here is the entirely unexpurgated version of the ditty.
  • Soldiers' missives haven't been routinely expurgated since World War II and the days of ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’
  • Pre-publication teasers had it that the main reason for the expanded and 'unexpurgated' version of the diaries was that Campbell would pull no punches in his depiction of Brown once he had left Number 10, but this is at best half true. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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