expurgated

• “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...

• “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

• “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”

  Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries

• “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

• “Also, is it, not to put too fine a point on it, 'expurgated' at all?”

  Army Rumour Service

• “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

• “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.”

  The Washington Post: Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire")

• “One assumes with certainty that Hemingway referred to the book as it was written, not to an expurgated version.”

  The Washington Post: Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire")

• “Anything that ends in “ly” is the work of the devil and should be expurgated!”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.

• “And I am especially disappointed that they feel such an urgent need to attack writers, like me, who present balanced, carefully researched accounts of Mormon history that happen to diverge from the official, highly expurgated church version.”

  Jon Krakauer Responds to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Official Response To 'Under The Banner of Heaven'

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