bowdlerization AmE , also: bowdlerisation BrE

Still a bowdlerization, but it's less of a travesty to my ears than "forget you".

Robert read this letter, and said firmly, "No bowdlerization."

His name might have been a bowdlerization of St. John the Baptist.

In cases which involve the removal of allegedly "inappropriate" content from a work, this is also known as bowdlerization.

This was not some taboo-breaking writer letting loose his pent-up fury at bowdlerization.

Bowdlerization and omission of lyrics were typical.

This bowdlerization makes searching difficult.

The problem isn't the liberties the filmmakers take with reality, but that this isn't an engaging bowdlerization.

Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.

On learning of what he termed the "bowdlerization" of his book, Hills demanded a disclaimer be placed in the preface.

Because of that, Mad River, which has perhaps the most challenging skiing in the East, has resisted bowdlerization.

This, a partial bowdlerization, moulded it to a standard working-class tragedy while greatly downgrading its socialist political content.

In the first place, they form one of the few of his pithier sayings that can be cited verbatim in mixed company without bowdlerization.

In recent years, this has included the removal of earlier editions' bowdlerization, which habitually extended to reversal of gender to disguise homosexual references.

This is a Hollywood Production Code bowdlerization of the line in the play: "I'm a b*****d!"

Tobacco bowdlerization occurs when a publisher or government agency expurgates a photograph, text, or video document to remove images and references to consuming tobacco products.

The title is a bowdlerization of General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous quote "War is Hell."

I translated this to Smedley with tactful bowdlerization, and then Miraj Khan was off on his belly ahead of us.

This bowdlerization renders nonsensical the next phrase, "...and then to the card-house," as though drinking and gambling took place in separate establishments.

(The band's name is a bowdlerization of the title of a book by the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci.)

The "bluesier" direction of Load was a bowdlerization of what Corrosion of Conformity, Down and host of other bands were doing throughout the early 90s.

Her presumption of direct, unmediated contact with the source material is questionable: why the clumsy translations of texts in the program, including a bowdlerization of anti-Semitic texts?

He faced two obstacles: the Brno orchestra sounded good but not great, and is presumably so used to the Prague bowdlerization that the original version does not flow idiomatically.

In evoking frantic, joyless consumerism, there is still nothing to surpass Mr. Howard's 2000 bowdlerization of the slender 1957 Dr. Seuss classic.

As I calculate, about a third of the book's sections, because of the raw language Mr. Lentricchia uses, are unreproducible in this paper without excision or bowdlerization.