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bowdlerisms

bowdlerisms is the plural of bowdlerism.

Meaning of bowdlerism

Noun

bowdlerism (countable and uncountable, plural bowdlerisms)

  1. A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent.

Questions about bowdlerisms

What is bowdlerisms the plural of?
Bowdlerisms is the plural of bowdlerism.

Words near bowdlerisms in the dictionary

  1. bowdleriser
  2. bowdlerisers
  3. bowdlerises
  4. bowdlerising
  5. bowdlerism
  6. bowdlerisms
  7. bowdlerization
  8. bowdlerizations
  9. bowdlerize
  10. bowdlerized
  11. bowdlerizer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowdlerisms (page history and authors); bowdlerism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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