bowdlerize
bowdlerise BrE

He left many of his strongest poems out and bowdlerized others.

It could have told us how science is often distorted and bowdlerized to tell the public what it wants to hear.

On occasion, a line has to be bowdlerized.

The editor of the journal, however, bowdlerized Balzac's text.

Those pieces had been bowdlerized over time.

The story is bowdlerized into a generic drama of romantic intrigue, jealousy and revenge.

He had bowdlerized his own book.

(Actually, the last line has been bowdlerized.

The 20th century brought Prohibition, and the term "cider" was bowdlerized to mean apple juice.

In the 19th century it was bowdlerized to omit a few sexual situations and allusions.

Both are highly selected and heavily bowdlerized.

Lane's version is bowdlerized, and illustrated by William Harvey.

On top of that, Russian opera was bowdlerized by decades of Soviet censorship.

But not bowdlerized, so don't feel cheated.

The wall behind her displayed a calendar and two bowdlerized anatomical charts, one labeled "male," the other "female."

The local press, hungry for something local to champion, bowdlerized it into mangue beat.

The first translations of this kind, such as that of Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were bowdlerized.

French editions of Horace were influential in England and these too were regularly bowdlerized.

Some songs, especially ones with obscene words as their chorus, become so bowdlerized that their meaning is no longer even fathomable on the radio.

I really do feel that we've bowdlerized our gardens and that prettiness rules now in the garden, and that's a recent idea.

Lorinda nodded and conveyed Freddie's acceptance, suitably bowdlerized.

He prepared the English adaptation of this piece, in which he bowdlerized the more risqué French version.

Painters, in particular, were utterly in thrall to their patrons and would bowdlerise their own works with simpering merchants' families in the corner, just for the privilege of painting.

This show garnered particular praise for refusing to bowdlerise many of the sadder or more unpleasant aspects of the source works, which usually enjoyed a fairly faithful retelling in the fantasy sequences.

The trouble is that the promoter can then bowdlerise or doctor the final version that appears before the House, and it is presented as though it is objective, but is it really objective?