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Definition of Bowdlerized
1. bowdlerize [v] - See also: bowdlerize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerized
Literary usage of Bowdlerized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"We have heard about The Day After, but The Day After was, of course, a very
bowdlerized version of nuclear war. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) ..."
2. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"You will get them bowdlerized I CHORUS. Yes, we'll do as we're advised, We will
get them bowdlerized I SOLO.—SACHARISSA. Pray you, tell us, if you can, ..."
3. Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University by Robert Ranulph Marett, Arthur Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Frank Byron Jevons, John Linton Myres, William Warde Fowler (1908)
"Again, why was Hesiod not bowdlerized ? Hesiod certainly entered into public
knowledge no less than Homer. Finally, if the taste of the seventh and sixth ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... afterwards made famous by the acting of Mrs Jordan, that bowdlerized form of
The Country Wife in which Garrick, with an object more praiseworthy than ..."
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