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unexpurgated

[uhn-ek-sper-gay-tid] / ʌnˈɛk spərˌgeɪ tɪd /


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Pepys’s financial corruption, common enough among officials of his rank, is well known, having come out in the unexpurgated edition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

To be precise, the current attorney general, Merrick Garland, released the report, unexpurgated, unredacted and without comment or commentary.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

We’ll have to hope that some later, more enlightened generation will rectify our mistake, step off the euphemism treadmill and confront literary history in all its messy, unexpurgated glory.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

Readers had to wait another half-century for the Library of America, a nonprofit that publishes classic American literature in authoritative new editions, to release an unexpurgated version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

For a time I was limited to a book of Bible stories given us to read at school, as it was considered unwise to permit children to read the Old Testament unexpurgated.

From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan


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