Bowdler

How To Use Bowdler In A Sentence

• As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling. TIME OF THE WOLF
• I asked the guy who would bowdlerize Larry Niven if given the chance this question: "If someone was writing the biography of your life, would you want it to have a sex scene? Bowdlerized
• Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler. Trey Ellis: Censoring Huck Ain't So Simple
• Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like. Lionel: We Are Our Memories
• The above excerpt, “Hamlet,” illustrates how such lingual poverty might bowdlerize the legacy of poetry. Quick Review 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
• The Nutcracker — but not any of the chopped-down, bowdlerized, amputated versions pretending to be the real story. In the dead of winter «
• But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era.
• Did its reception shatter his confidence, leaving him unable to finish the other novels he worked on intermittently over his last years: "Islands in the Stream" and "The Garden of Eden" both published posthumously in heavily edited, and perhaps bowdlerized, editions? The Slow Crack-Up
• In particular, young, unestablished players such as Glover, Mottola, SG DerMarr Johnson and PF Cal Bowdler should play with high energy.