Meanings
- not comparableNot expurgated, not having had anything objectionable removed
No remark of Mr. Murphy's can be printed here in unexpurgated form, but his observations about relations between the sexes are nothing if not keen.
1987 December 19, Janet Maslin, “The Movies: 'Eddie Murphy Raw'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 20231 more example
Suddenly she stopped short, and disengaged herself from her companion. 'Oh, I sy,' she said, 'this is too bloomin' slow; it gives me the sick.' That is not precisely what she said, but it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story, the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue.
1897, W.S. Maugham, Lisa of Lambeth, chapter 1Synonyms: unabridged, uncensored
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot expurgated, not having had anything objectionable removed
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot having material deleted
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishexpurgated
- Englishunexpurgated
From un- + expurgated.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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