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- adjective having material deleted; -- of books.
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- adjective Having had
erroneous ,obscene , or otherobjectionable materialremoved . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
expurgate .
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- adjective having material deleted
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Examples
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So I looked it up in Culhane's book Talking Animals and Other People and there on pages 119-121 we read about Culhane's amazement to see his name expurgated from the film, while his assistant Tate was credited instead.
A note on Pinocchio... Hans Perk 2007
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So I looked it up in Culhane's book Talking Animals and Other People and there on pages 119-121 we read about Culhane's amazement to see his name expurgated from the film, while his assistant Tate was credited instead.
Archive 2007-02-01 Hans Perk 2007
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They showered me with advice as to my future conduct, and overhauled my clothes to see that no incriminating garment found its way into that which Bessie called my "expurgated" wardrobe.
Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919
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They showered me with advice as to my future conduct, and overhauled my clothes to see that no incriminating garment found its way into that which Bessie called my "expurgated" wardrobe.
Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919
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Comparing the Idylls of the King with Malory's book, we are irresistibly reminded of certain Catholic books of devotion "expurgated" or "adapted" for members of the Church of
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Jonathan Homer of Newton, who was, to look upon, a kind of expurgated, reduced and Americanized copy of Voltaire, but very unlike him in wickedness or wit.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Jonathan Homer of Newton, who was, to look upon, a kind of expurgated, reduced and Americanized copy of Voltaire, but very unlike him in wickedness or wit.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Also, is it, not to put too fine a point on it, 'expurgated' at all?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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"expurgated" for drawing room recital by an ultra-fastidious [15] who nevertheless recognized its great force.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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But I am even more offended by the prospect that Mark Twain's classic work will be expurgated, rewritten by someone who wants to shield readers from the book's original language.
Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire") Valerie Strauss 2011
oroboros commented on the word expurgated
exPURGatED
April 24, 2008