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bowdlerizer

n. One who bowdlerizes.

Usage examples of "bowdlerizer".

By the time I was ready to go home I had learned a few tricks about emergency book evacuation procedures (page 34), read about the aims of the Bowdlerizers (page 62), a group of well-meaning yet censorious individuals hell-bent on removing obscenities from fiction.

Until Bigelow, no one had ever thought to save that wicked old creature from the bowdlerizers.