dysphemism

How To Use dysphemism In A Sentence

• The first is dysphemism, the deliberate use of an offensive word to indicate disapproval. Times, Sunday Times
• “Disabled” is currently a neutral term, but it might have once had a euphemistic ring to it, and may one day become a dysphemism. Waldo Jaquith - The euphemism treadmill.
• It is a dysphemism for what is sometimes known as “community organizing” -- professionally staging protests and lending them credibility via the false impression of spontaneity. Leave Barack Alone!
• Of course, this comes from the rebel psychologist for whom diagnostic psychiatry is an authoritarian priesthood, and ‘insanity’ an institutional dysphemism for ‘minority.’
• (Or would Americans just think of Republicans vs Democrats in Congress?) #17: Try 'dysphemism, dysphemistic' in analogy with 'to euphemize'. RealClimate
• Now the honest word secondhand is relegated to the ash heap of dysphemism.
• Curiously, the word works as both dysphemism and euphemism: Americans were repelled in 1940 at the fictional account of lynching called The Ox-Bow Incident, but when Chinese Communist officials want to minimize what Westerners call “the massacre at Tiananmen Square,” they call that crushing of studentled protest “the incident of June 4, 1989” in Chinese, liu si, “six four”. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• As euphemism, these clearly outdo themselves to the opposite extreme ( "dysphemism," as also in "greasy spoon" or "cancer stick"). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
• his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter
• Putting aside the question of whether “right-wing” is an accurate description or just a dysphemism, Harford was speaking only of the pricing aspect of the “Fair Trade” approach, which, rightly or wrongly, is what most people think of as its most significant aspect. Link Farm & Open Thread #42