bowdlerize

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Editorial note

HN doesn't bowdlerize, so the first thing to do with the title is take out the stars.

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Quick take

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

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verb

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for bowdlerize.

verb

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

See also: bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten

Example sentences

HN doesn't bowdlerize, so the first thing to do with the title is take out the stars.

I didnt want to see that playground bowdlerized.

There's no need to bowdlerize swear words on HN, but there is a need not to post things like "Are you fucking kidding me".

When it was first published in 1962, he had to bowdlerize the swear words that were copious in a novel set in the army.

And this is a somewhat bowdlerized parody anyway.

Do you think the term "political correctness" or the word "bowdlerize" is the gratuitous editorial spin?

A place to carefully calibrate, sanitize and bowdlerize our words for every possible audience, now and forever.

The idea that they would want to bowdlerize a user's text input to advance a vague political agenda is absurd and resembles the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy theory.

Just because you write it that you don't mean to be a jerk doesn't mean you do, it's just a way to bowdlerize your harshness and attempt to sound civil while actually being pointless in your criticism, which is otherwise called trolling.