How To Use Euphemistic In A Sentence
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That search, which Corto knows is fruitless, reconciles the sublimation of the motivating object with the euphemistic cynicism of a horizontal and not ascensional awareness of the journey.
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It was certainly used euphemistically in Chile, Argentina and the rest for people about whose fate there could be little doubt, but linguistically it was above reproach just as, for example, El accidente ocurrido ayer means The accident that happened yesterday.
16 posts from March 2010
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The derivation I heard was that in early Israeli slang the word zanav, ‘tail’, was used for penis, and when that started to seem too improper, the first letter of the word, zayin, was euphemistically substituted for it, which in due course has become the only colloquial word for it (with no trace of this sense remaining inzanav).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:
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And that's not just a euphemistic way of saying 'unambitious'; in fact, they're more sweeping than any President has proposed in a generation.
Obama Advisers: He's Not Moving To The Center
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The film focuses on two borstal ‘trainees’ - a euphemistic term for inmates - with differing approaches to beating the system.
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But to many the biggest worry was the ramming through parliament last month of a bill to allow for Self-Defence Forces - an increasingly euphemistic title - to be sent overseas.
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I take it you are referring to food and not being euphemistic ?
TICKLED PINK
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It certainly sounds like good news that the administration has finally deigned to let FISA courts play their legally mandated oversight role, putting an end to the extralegal enterprise euphemistically (and question-beggingly) dubbed the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Slightly-Less-Illegal Wiretaps
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Instead, they excel in what might euphemistically be termed "down-market entertainment"—beauty contests, sensationalism, pop stars and their scandals and consumerism.
China's Cultural Devolution
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Replacing sajdah (a foreign term) with the euphemistic "prostration" (a limited but acceptable Catholic concept) is a fraudulent attempt to convince well-meaning Catholics that an alien religious practice has disciplinary merit.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The absurd description is one of a raft of euphemistic job titles dreamt up by modern managers desperate to attract a higher calibre of candidates, but which give little insight into the position on offer.
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The substitution of a clear word for euphemistic jargon is found in all forms of manufactured communication, but is perhaps most often used by the military.
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Germany and the USA would have solved their differences in private, and in euphemistic, polite language.
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‘Balancing’ an online sample by using census figures of the entire U.S. is - to put it euphemistically - a fandangle.
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Both the Grace Lines and the International Mercantile Marine Company built large liners accommodating as many as 750 revelers strictly for what was euphemistically called “the intercoastal trade.”
LAST CALL
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Anyway, speaking as a Pulitzer Prize-winner suffering from deferred success, I am all for a campaign against any form of political correctness or euphemistic nonsense.
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his violent death was euphemistically referred to as a passing away
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And it also meant that he was on a large number of painkillers, which, apparently (I can find no euphemistic way to put this) have a variety of different effects on ones bowel.
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The substitution of a clear word for euphemistic jargon is found in all forms of manufactured communication, but is perhaps most often used by the military.
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He should have been deemed (or 'sectioned' as they now euphemistically call it).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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And once the cards had been taken down from their strings and the tree lights well and truly entangled for next year, it was always a particular joy in the first days of January to wander up the garden path through the 'orchard' as we euphemistically called it, to take a look at a patch of earth under a stubborn old greengage tree.
Aconite Acolyte
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Holder explains that labeling a word or expression as euphemistic or dysphemistic is, of necessity, subjective; ‘one woman's euphemism is another man's dysphemism.’
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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This, it appears, may also extend to what is euphemistically known as 'manscaping'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ad in the classified section of the newspaper was vague and euphemistic.
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Euphemistically known as " legacy codes, " they were in fact far older . Mir.
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It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit.
Confetti Confidential
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Things were at best bloated and inefficient; he prefers to dress up the change in rather euphemistic terms.
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By the turn of the 20th century, perhaps 15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Paris and London had syphilis, though often the diagnosis was spoken of in the most euphemistic and obfuscatory terms.
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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.
Babbit
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There are vulgar and euphemistic terms for sex.
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Of course, this "defendant" hadn't, but there were people who were also in the business of "antiquities collecting" (as it is sometimes euphemistically referred to) who had, namely the unnamed eminence grise behind Michael Baigent's most recent and rather untypically somewhat lightweight, "The Jesus Papers" (Harper Collins, 2006).
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.”
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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The website, MyanmarNargis. org, has a few telltale signs of being a false front operation -- what is euphemistically known in the field as "counterintelligence" -- headed up in fact by the SPDC.
A Wanted Man in Burma
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We also object to the euphemistic term 'controlled archive'.
MPs attack archive of lost asylum applicants
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For example, "Hebrew-Aramaic words for bathroom functions in Jewish languages are typically quite euphemistic. mashtin zayn 'urinate', nekovim gedoylim and nekovim ketanim 'big holes and 'little holes', geyn af gedoylim and geyn af ketanim "to defecate' and 'to urinate' are indirect and learned ways to avoid saying kakn or shaysn and pishn.
Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms
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Texas's interest in § 21.06 could be recast in similarly euphemistic terms: ‘preserving the traditional sexual mores of our society.’
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“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.
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It is given each year to a person or organization in the US that has used public language that is, in the committee's judgment, deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, or self-contradictory.
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They are euphemistical as to the weather, calling it hazy and soft, and never allowing themselves to carry bad language on such a subject beyond the word dull.
Castle Richmond
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I don't like euphemisms or euphemistic language.
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Coercion and ‘rationality’ went together: hence the euphemistic term ‘command economy.’
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I defy anyone who is offered a well-paid job with good prospects to refuse it because they would rather juggle a few ‘portfolios’ (a euphemistic way of saying short-term contract).
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Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" -- as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years -- Obama has euphemistically vowed to
ChronWatch - Articles
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An unofficial non-binding referendum - euphemistically called a 'consultation' (consulta) - is set for next month.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The prison is euphemistically called a "rehabilitation centre".
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Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" - as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years - Obama has euphemistically vowed to
Americans For Truth
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After howls from the company and vigorous pushback by Ohio officials, however, the agency postponed its final application review to allow USEC more time to fix what the company euphemistically called "teething problems.
Elliott Negin: Will Boehner's Pork Project Be the Next Solyndra?
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What I find both amazing and aggravating is that those who insist on what they euphemistically call “single payer healthcare” refuse to even discuss the propriety of those who have preexisting conditions, or persist in the negative behaviors that lead to diseased conditions, paying higher premiums in exchange for their not being denied coverage.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Lipstick on the Health-Reform Pig:
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And here they were part of something euphemistically called a pacification operation, a dreadful word that the French first claimed in Algeria, I believe, in describing that war, which involved very, very good programs -- building clinics and helping Vietnamese.
Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam
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In a poem called "A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties," for example, Hirsch strings together the euphemistic names for methods of torture, fashioning a kind of antic dance step, meant to expose the dark side of Reagan-era prosperity.
NYT > Home Page
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`peepee' is a common euphemistic term
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All is euphemistic denial of the one fact of both.
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Here the grapes are left on the vines until late fall with the hope they will become infected with botrytis, or as it is euphemistically called, ‘noble rot.’
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Well how about this: Almost 100 percent of all farmed salmon is artificially colored with either canthaxanthin or astaxanthin, a process sometimes euphemistically called ‘color finishing.’
The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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This somewhat euphemistic term described days when citizens carried out ‘labour service’, neon signs were extinguished, and sake (rice wine) was removed from public sale.
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He wants to appropriate this euphemistic term to examine relations between men.
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Senators in both hearings sought answers as to why each person supported ‘torture’, or its close euphemistic cousin, ‘coercive interrogation practices’.
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These are also euphemistically called scalable parallel, massively parallel, or cluster computers.
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None of that euphemistic glowing or perspiring here, mate.
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This is euphemistic code for achieving imperialistic control over as many regions of the world as possible, through whatever means are necessary (including preemptive war).
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‘I'm a little embarrassed talking about this but many of us couldn't even walk,’ she weeps, adding that her years as a comfort woman, the euphemistic term for forced prostitution, had done her body irreparable damage.
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The latest technologies like fMRI get misused in the service of biological reductionism and neo-eugenics (euphemistically called sociobiology and evolutionary psychology).
Boing Boing
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With every passing week, the BJP just adds to this euphemistic list.