Meanings of bowdlerize in English

She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school.

I cannot, unfortunately, bowdlerize the best of these without spoiling them, so I will endeavor to give a few examples of the less forceful.

To tell this bowdlerized story of her brother was to elevate herself.

Not being an adept liar, she continued with a bowdlerized version of the facts.

He'd already spoken to his editor and told him a slightly bowdlerized version of the latest developments.

Bowdlerized versons of tales are not effective.

This bowdlerized Deeming Rule went into effect on August 8, 2016.

This strangely bowdlerized account leaves out most of the important events of the last part of her life.

I don't want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare.

For it is a collated (and Bowdlerized!)

They are supplied with state-approved textbooks that have had the word 'evolution' systematically expunged, or bowdlerized into 'change over time'.

Their concern is the Disney theme parks, where bowdlerized rides, crass commercialism, and poor crowd control are destroying the magic.

"Mhudi" was published by the missionary press at Lovedale in 1930, in a somewhat bowdlerized version.

Since there are only four of them they have obvious difficulties when playing Shakespeare: their bowdlerized productions are known as 'Sharp's Short Shakespeare Shows'.

At all events, even on the bowdlerized evidence that exists, it is plain that Anne Turner should have been charged only with attempted murder.

The following pieces were originally published in edited, heavily edited, or (in at least one instance) bowdlerized form in the following books and periodicals.