Meanings of bowdlerise in English

In addition to "bowdlerise," there is "sandwich."

Last summer, Stephen Sondheim was reported as suggesting that Walt Disney was set to bowdlerise his immaculate deconstruction of fairytale mythos.

It might have been bowdlerised MacMillan but it had seismic force.

It then had to be substantially bowdlerised to secure the chance of release in Russia.

Roth's fiction has previously been mangled and bowdlerised into such unlovely movies as The Human Stain.

Traditional music has had more than its fair share of doors opened and boundaries bowdlerised in recent years.

In the fashion of the time, Garrick repeatedly bowdlerised the Bard, cutting and adding whole characters and scenes.

Victorian versions often edited it to clarify one way or the other (and sometimes bowdlerised it, too).

Of course it's Bowdlerised as to words, but she manages to get back all that's been taken out in her acting.

Lamb and his Mary took the often-dark complexity of Shakespeare's stage plots and simplified them for younger readers, paraphrasing and bowdlerising where necessary.

Your correspondent complained that the "colourful" New York vernacular in Saturday Night Fever, which was audible on the screen, had been bowdlerised in the subtitles.

If I may be permitted a rather lengthy digression, "bowdlerised" derives its name from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare.