How To Use Euphemistically In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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Euphemistically known as " legacy codes, " they were in fact far older . Mir.
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This, it appears, may also extend to what is euphemistically known as 'manscaping'.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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‘Balancing’ an online sample by using census figures of the entire U.S. is - to put it euphemistically - a fandangle.
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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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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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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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his violent death was euphemistically referred to as a passing away
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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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These are also euphemistically called scalable parallel, massively parallel, or cluster computers.
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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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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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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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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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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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The prison is euphemistically called a "rehabilitation centre".
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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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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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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