If I may be permitted a rather lengthy digression, "bowdlerised" derives its name from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)
Thus we can access the poem as Bloomfield wanted it to be read, as well as see it in the bowdlerised form in which it has long been known. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Plumptre, James, Revd (1770 – 1832): Vicar of Great Gransden in Huntingdonshire, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, an evangelical clergyman who produced bowdlerised versions of popular songs, a comic opera about Lake District tourists (The Lakers), and critiques of Shakespeare. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Actually only the latter bowdlerised view of history will do as the Liberal Left is a good deal more anti-Semitic than Richard ever was. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I have to say, Antichrist is one of my most eagerly anticipated films in a very long time and to see it or, for that matter, any other film bowdlerised for commerical purposes would have left me quite disgusted. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Living Waters squander resources printing their bowdlerised version of Origin and giving it away on campus. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is essentially a film about a very deranged man who kills people and then feeds them to other people in pies, and that's not dodged or bowdlerised at any point. ❋ Greg Tannahill (2008)
He thought passports could be bowdlerised of narrow-minded entries, but backed down when his party balked. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I have honestly never been in a place where ordinary words are bowdlerised and butchered as much as this. ❋ Alistair Myles (2006)
I was about eight or nine when I watched what must have been a bowdlerised cartoon adaptation of Animal Farm on television. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The full details of this narrative have evidently been offensive to the author of LB, who has heroically bowdlerised it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
On the other hand the _Eaglet_, mewed in his Austrian cage, knew nothing of life at large, and had small chance of learning anything beyond the bowdlerised history which his tutors and warders thought good to have him stuffed with. ❋ Various (N/A)
Indeedthough the dead are always respectable I doubt whether Petronius, or Chaucer, or Rabelais, or Shakespeare would remain un-bowdlerised if our magistrates and police were greater readers. ❋ Unknown (1947)
This is a bowdlerised descendant of "The Shepherd and his Wife", in Herd 1776 I. 182 (Hecht, Herd MSS. 163 ff.), a dialogue between the two: ❋ Unknown (1948)
He is a recognized Dante scholar and is the author of works on literary and religious subjects. underlying feeling in his own mind that is expressed in the old familiar toast, bowdlerised slightly so as to be suitable to the times -- "Here's to ourselves; wha's like us? gey few!" ❋ Unknown (1924)
Between this sort of song and most, there is much the same difference as between going abroad, and reading a book of travels; or between singing folk-songs with the folk and twittering bowdlerised versions in a drawing-room. ❋ Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1900)
[FN#297] Translated and well annotated by Prof. Tawney, who, however, affects asterisks and has considerably bowdlerised sundry of the tales, e.g. the Monkey who picked out the Wedge ❋ Anonymous (1855)
And if The Nights are to be bowdlerised for students, why not, I again ask, mutilate Plato and ❋ Anonymous (1855)
This [statement] is so [offensive],would you [please] bowdlerise it. ❋ Fufukiki (2009)
