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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expurgated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Afterwards she went back to Emma and gave her an expurgated version.
▪ She gave an expurgated account of the ghastly happenings in Keele, and then was silent while he waited for her instructions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
expurgated

expurgated \expurgated\ adj. having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.

Wiktionary
expurgated
  1. Having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed. v

  2. (en-past of: expurgate)

WordNet
expurgated

adj. having material deleted; "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"

Usage examples of "expurgated".

I gave him an expurgated edition of Harlan's recovery from the drug, intimating that'suspicions had existed in certain minds' over the cause of Harlan's unexpected collapse.

A much expurgated entry scrolled past, ending with the Code Four restriction.