expurgate

Example Sentences

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Lindo: There is a tradition of black soldiers being marginalized at best, expurgated at worst.

From Seattle Times

So “Hercules” as a movie was already an expurgated, glossed-up product.

From New York Times

If ever there were a diva unsuited to the expurgated, down-talking children’s book treatment, it’s Donna Summer.

From New York Times

In the interest of full disclosure, the above is the expurgated version of our relationship, edited to make us sound like virtuous and unified parents.

From New York Times

We lose a critical piece of our cultural knowledge – and our ability to recognize who we were so we can actually change – when we expurgate anything tricky or objectionable from the record.

From The Guardian