Crossword-Solution: BOWDLERIZE
We have 11 clues for the answer “BOWDLERIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Desex the text | 1 answer |
| to purge literature of all possibly offensive or morally impure material | 1 answer |
| edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | 2 answers |
| Bowdlerize | 6 answers |
| Cut, in a way | 10 answers |
| Blip | 17 answers |
| Expurgate | 18 answers |
| Censor | 37 answers |
| Edit | 57 answers |
| clean up | 58 answers |
| Screen | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOWDLERIZE (4)
Why shouldn't I have mine? That will be his argument." "You can't do it," she concluded, "unless you are prepared to keep half the world's literature away from the children, scrap half your music, edit your museums and your picture galleries; bowdlerize your Old Testament and rewrite your histories.
She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school.
And to Bowdlerize one human being for another is a terrible task for any man, more especially if the two people happen to be women, and most especially if they happen to be women both dear to him.
What could be more suggestive, for instance, than the fact that the adjective _improper_ was first applied to human beings in the early fifties? Words which are derived from the names of real individuals, as _bowdlerize_, _boycott_, _burke_, _derrick_, _dunce_,[20] _galvanize_, _mesmerism_, _morse_, _sandwich_, _tawdry_, or fictitious ones, as _gamp_, _knickerbocker_, _lilliputian_, _quixotic_, _pamphlet_, _pickwickian_, are sometimes, but not always historically interesting.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1973–2014).