Words and phrases that have a meaning related to bowdlerization: (105 results)
Often used in the same context:
literalness, pentameter, crudities, apercus, hackwork, archaism, clownishness, juvenilia, onanism, journalese, nabokovian, scatology, facetiousness, scansion, pompousness, blatancy, doggerel, prolixity, sneery, threnody, tautologies, exegeses, shavian, vulgarization, homiletic, fustiness, prudery, commonplaces, orotund, emendations, metafiction, buncombe, flummery, diabolism, epigrams, didacticism, terseness, grand guignol, anglophilic, syllogisms, supernaturalism, fictionalisation, rhapsodies, hacky, solecism, attitudinizing, circumlocution, priggishness, sophistic, deracination, absurdism, grandiloquence, tu quoque, pedantry, wryness, harlotry, koans, shakespearean sonnet, dilettantism, panegyric, cogitations, sophistries, sestina, cibber, groaner, tragedians, grotesquery, inelegance, latterday, archness, lechery, jabberwocky, prurience, inanity, rawly, gallimaufry, wordiness, historicism, superfluity, vulgarism, vulgarian, abjection, monomaniac, nancy mitford, infelicities, pythonesque, reification, geist, salaciousness, crudeness, cusswords, split infinitive, hilaire belloc, max beerbohm, mummery, outlawry, expostulation, imposture, jouissance, lunkheaded, dadaist, intertextuality
More general:
deletion
Synonyms:
Also try:bowdlerisation, expurgation
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