bowdlerizer

• Nom désignant une personne qui édite un texte en supprimant ou en atténuant les passages jugés obscènes, offensants ou choquants, souvent de manière excessive ou prude.

A noun referring to a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages, often to an excessive or prudish degree.

1. Textual censorC2formal

   A person who removes or modifies content from a text that is considered obscene, offensive, or inappropriate.

   Censeur de textes

   • The bowdlerizer removed all references to violence from the novel.
   • Critics accused the publisher of acting as a bowdlerizer for the classic work.
   • A bowdlerizer often faces backlash for altering an author's original intent.

   Synonymescensorexpurgator