- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization, fig-leaf
edition or
censorship by
political correctness is a form of
censorship that involves...
- 1830s; they and
others consider the
expression to have been a
simple bowdlerization, with,
according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, an
unknown origin...
-
separate volumes, e.g. The
Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's
actual comment,
bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not
another ****ing Elf!" Grovier,
Kelly (29...
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Double entendre Dysphemism Emotive conjugation Expurgation (often
called bowdlerization,
after Thomas Bowdler)
Framing (social sciences)
Minimisation Persuasive...
- will wish for a
closer rendering,
though models are easy to find."
Bowdlerization Eggcorn Euphemism Expletive deleted Four-letter word
Fuddle duddle Hlonipha...
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liberties the
filmmakers take with reality, but that this isn't an
engaging bowdlerization...
Johnny Depp
neither soars nor crashes, but
moseys forward with vague...
- of Sens and
William avoided a
similar fate
through systematic self-
bowdlerization of his
early work, but his
commentaries and
encyclopedic De Philosophia...
-
necessarily straightforward imitations. For example, Bill Haley's
incompletely bowdlerized cover of "Shake,
Rattle and Roll"
transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous...
- tale
genre as a
genre for children, and has been
accused by some of
bowdlerizing the
gritty naturalism – and
sometimes unhappy endings – of many folk...
- its
street address.
Adjectives and
verbs may be eponyms, for
example bowdlerize.
Adjectives derived from the word
eponym include eponymous and eponymic...
