Sample Sentences foreuphemism (editor-reviewed)
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Passed away is a euphemism for died.euphemism = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh way of saying something unpleasant
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Put to sleep is a euphemism for painlessly killing a pet to end its suffering.
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My paper is on what euphemisms tell us about subjects with which we are uncomfortable.euphemisms = words or phrases that serve as less harsh or less offensive ways of saying unpleasant things
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But he has passed away. This is a euphemism, of course. ... He is dead... (source)euphemism = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh or less offensive way of saying something unpleasant
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He tried euphemism: It's like when a tree branch has to bend so it doesn't break.† (source)
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I imagined, of course, the bedside scene behind the curtain of that euphemism.† (source)
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"Interesting" was Walter's euphemism for odd people, and having worked for hundreds of people throughout the county over the years, he'd encountered no shortage of "interesting" people.† (source)
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She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.† (source)
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The school was what could euphemistically be called a "teaching college."† (source)
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You're something of a coward, man, a phony, and if your cousin calls you a civilian, that's merely a very euphemistic way of putting it.† (source)
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Is that a euphemism to say I'm plain?† (source)
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Or any of those other stupid euphemisms.† (source)
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Enraged at Mukhtar's continued defiance and outspokenness, Musharraf ordered her kidnapped (or, as he euphemistically put it, brought to the capital).† (source)
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Or was now pathetically languishing in a lunatic asylum, so that the use of the past tense is merely sorrowfully euphemistic?† (source)
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LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL 'FOREIGN POLICY': OUR 'FOREIGN POLICY' IS A EUPHEMISM FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND OUR PUBLIC RELATIONS GET WORSE AND WORSE.† (source)
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No one wants to talk about what happened—they just tiptoe around it or concoct euphemisms like 'unfortunate outcomes' and 'compromised assets.'† (source)
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