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blue pencilled

verb as in proofread

verb as in soft pedal

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Example Sentences

Finally in looking over a skidway he noticed that one log had not been blue-pencilled across the end.

Hastily he blue-pencilled his proofs, threw them into the wire basket, and hurried outdoors to seek the nearest tailor.

And one day, sitting alone in his office, a clerk brought him a morning paper with one column marked in a big blue-pencilled oval.

The grim censor blue-pencilled it down to eight lines and a half!

But the reporter has struck, because I blue-pencilled his notes.

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On this page you'll find 643 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to blue pencil, such as: abbreviate, curtail, truncate, abstract, chop, and clip.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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