👉 Bowdlerisation is a term used in legal and media contexts to describe the process of reducing or omitting certain words, phrases, or characters from a text that are considered offensive or inappropriate. It can refer to the reduction of obscenity, profanity, or other potentially offensive language or content from published materials. In legal contexts, bowdlerisation is often used in cases where the language used in court documents, such as pleadings, judgments, and orders, need not be interpreted literally