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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
  • She would not have wished to be pawed over after her death, whatever that pawing over might euphemistically be termed.†  (source)
    euphemistically = said in a manner that is less harsh or less offensive than stating something directly
  • He fell back on that most common writers'—workshop euphemism: 'It's got possibilities, all right.†  (source)
    euphemism = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh or less offensive way of saying something unpleasant
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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)
    euphemism = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh or less offensive way of saying something unpleasant
  • The ads were full of sunny euphemisms for the types of behavior I knew all too well.†  (source)
    euphemisms = words or phrases that serve as less harsh or less offensive ways of saying unpleasant things
  • The school was what could euphemistically be called a "teaching college."†  (source)
    euphemistically = said in a manner that is less harsh or less offensive than stating something directly
  • Previously the practice had been referred to as female circumcision, but that was considered euphemistic, so critics branded it female genital mutilation, or FGM.†  (source)
    euphemistic = less harsh or offensive
  • 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)
    EUPHEMISM = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh or less offensive way of saying something unpleasant
  • Or any of those other stupid euphemisms.†  (source)
    euphemisms = words or phrases that serve as less harsh or less offensive ways of saying unpleasant things
  • In growing meekness Babbitt went on waiting till Hanson casually reappeared with a quart of gin—what is euphemistically known as a quart—in his disdainful long white hands.†  (source)
    euphemistically = said in a manner that is less harsh or less offensive than stating something directly
  • 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)
    euphemistic = less harsh or offensive
  • It hurt, and that is not a euphemism.†  (source)
    euphemism = a word or phrase that serves as a less harsh or less offensive way of saying something unpleasant
  • Alex had been single for so long; she was practical, resolute, and set in her ways (oh, who was she kidding'those were all just euphemisms for what she really was: stubborn)-she would have guessed that this sudden attack on her privacy would be unnerving.†  (source)
    euphemisms = words or phrases that serve as less harsh or less offensive ways of saying unpleasant things
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