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UK
/ɛkspˈɜːɡeɪtɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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having material deleted
at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions
How To Use expurgated In A Sentence
- Neither he nor the many foreign academics he quotes have had much luck persuading people to surrender their unexpurgated inboxes. Times, Sunday Times
- But I am even more offended by the prospect that Mark Twain's classic work will be expurgated, rewritten by someone who wants to shield readers from the book's original language. Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire")
- Now, however, Playboy has gone to third base with the announcement that - as of next month - entire unexpurgated issues will be available online for the same price as the print edition.
- The recording industry already sells edited songs with sexually explicit lyrics side-by-side with the unexpurgated versions.
- All reference to them has been expurgated from his works… and from all other contemporary accounts.
- Ms. Cordery gives us the unexpurgated life—one that might make you want to shield the eyes of the nearest Brownie Scout but one that also lends depth and color to the American Girl Scouts founder's story. Saluting a Centennial
- Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated.
- Thomas Jefferson expurgated his own version by cut and paste method.
- This year, a century after Mark Twain's death in 1910, the University of California Press is posthumously publishing "The Autobiography of Mark Twain," a three-volume 'unexpurgated' collection that promises never-before-seen glimpses into a man who continues to defy hard-lined definitions. Apartment Therapy Main
- He went back to Mrs Howard and delivered an expurgated version of her quondam husband's invitation to join the party. SOMETHING IN THE WATER