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bowdlerize
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  • "My God," he announced, "I've been pirated, me and Wharfinger, we've been Bowdlerized in reverse or something.'†  (source)
    Bowdlerized = edited by removing or modifying parts considered vulgar
  • Consequently nothing can really shake the confidence of the public in the Lord Chamberlain's department except a remorseless and unbowdlerized narration of the licentious fictions which slip through its net, and are hallmarked by it with the approval of the Throne.†  (source)
    unbowdlerized = not edited by removing or modifying parts considered vulgar
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbowdlerized means not and reverses the meaning of bowdlerized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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