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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
- 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
- The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated.
- 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")
- If a book promises to provide a close-up and personal view of war, then unexpurgated oral histories rather than casual third-person narratives are much to be preferred.
- 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.