How To Use Euphemize In A Sentence
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Likewise, Vera is vague when her patients want to know what will happen to their bodies: a miscarriage is euphemized as ‘everything coming away.’
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This was euphemized as being a service to the press, a manifestation of an informationally advanced and enlightened world, or, the next generation in war reporting.
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About the time they reached the door, Brent burst from it, screaming euphemized obscenities.
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He said that 15 to 20 percent of losses was what "everyone learned to live with in 1991 and 1992" and that aid workers even coined a term to euphemize the theft - "traditional distribution" - because even though the food was getting looted, it still ended up in local markets, having the ancillary effect of reducing overall food prices and making food more affordable for the poor.
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I understood the true meaning of ‘laughing stock’, a mild term that euphemizes estranged friends and insensitive strangers.
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Abortion proponents hate the term partial-birth abortion because it accurately and understandably describes that which they would rather euphemize as a form of "choice" or obscure with technical terminology.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives
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The most intriguing part of her speech was how artfully she euphemized.
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Referring to ‘several hundred thousand’ soldiers as ‘the security business’ is an interesting way to euphemize a major commitment of U.S. troops.
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(Or would Americans just think of Republicans vs Democrats in Congress?) #17: Try 'dysphemism, dysphemistic' in analogy with 'to euphemize'.
RealClimate
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Thus it can be euphemized as a defensive response to save our civilian lives.
How the End Begins
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Middle management will euphemize poor results, failures, screw-ups when talking to upper management so that they don't look bad, but then the leaders have incomplete (bad) information and the company can't make good decisions.
Leadership
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In every case - personal, political, or business, we euphemize to take the edge off, and in doing so, we sacrifice clarity, we sacrifice truth, and worst of all, we avoid facing reality.
Students
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The Obama fiscal policy since 2009 has been to explode the U.S. balance sheet with ever-greater spending financed by monetary reflation—which the President in his speech euphemized as "emergency steps.
The Obama Speech Downgrade
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Tatiana wondered why Dasha always had to euphemize war into a campaign or a conflict.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Tatiana wondered why Dasha always had to euphemize war into a campaign or a conflict.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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(Or would Americans just think of Republicans vs Democrats in Congress?) #17: Try 'dysphemism, dysphemistic' in analogy with 'to euphemize'.
RealClimate
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The courageous reporters of the social-democratic paper had gotten hold of a secret Nazi Party plan for the disposition of the Jews that first used what was to become the widespread euphemism for extermination: “Final Solution” (Endlössung), a word that left little doubt over the mass murder it euphemized.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
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The empire is what it is, and the power realities will not be greatly different even if the name is euphemized and the personalities who direct it are changed.
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Oh, and I missed this: The courageous reporters of the social-democratic paper had gotten hold of a secret Nazi Party plan for the disposition of the Jews that first used what was to become the widespread euphemism for extermination: “Final Solution” (Endlössung), a word that left little doubt over the mass murder it euphemized.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
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When we euphemize, we generalize, we profile, we stereotype, and we assume that all of "them" are one.
Leadership
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The baffling plot (which might be euphemized as ‘labyrinthian’) tells of an anti-hero, dubbed ‘A.,’ who travels to Prague to find the office of the Central Registry, where he's been promised a position.
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If it be birds that ultimately euphemize human death and decomposition in Silas' hands, it's for no other reason than that our fear of death, a fear necessary to life, overrides even our fascination with the death of our own kind, the deaths of the animals nearest to us in the evolutionary chain, and so on down the line.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
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The second option is to trap them and euphemize them.
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Targets that are likely to lead to extensive civilian casualties are euphemized frequently as attacks on “economic infrastructure.”
How the End Begins
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The cinematography "euphemized" the gore so that it was tolerable for me.
Sound Off: Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli - Your Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net
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Actual terrorists, on the other hand, are still euphemized as militants and freedom-fighters.
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