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What does bowdlerization mean?

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Noun
  1. The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
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But none of this comes close to making up for what is a standard made-for-television biography eviscerated by massive, inexcusable bowdlerization.
Where Freud suffered from bowdlerization, or having fathered on to him all sorts of odd ideas, Jung has been neglected.
The common modern depiction of fairies in children's stories represents a bowdlerization of what was once a serious and even sinister folkloric tradition.
As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas.
But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era.

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