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- noun Plural form of
bowdlerizer .
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Examples
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Gordon writes that Christians in general are great "bowdlerizers" of the Bible, selectively reading for what they find useful and ignoring the more troubling parts.
NYT > Home Page By BENJAMIN ANASTAS 2009
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More Shanghai Truckers Protest Over Costs To confound Beijing's bowdlerizers, users have been known to post images of text rather than text itself, to jumble Chinese characters so they appear vertically, or to substitute sensitive terms with similar-sounding characters.
Internet Users Invent Ways to Outwit Beijing's Censors Jeremy Page 2011
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