How To Use bowdlerize 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
- 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 «
- 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
- Society does not need journalists to be leftist bowdlerisers like John Pilger; nor does it want them to be malleable followers.
- bowdlerized," but they still remained as excruciatingly funny as only French pieces can be. The Days Before Yesterday
- Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated.
