Example sentences for: dysphemisms

How can you use “dysphemisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut(s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.

  • 26] Dysphemisms, then, are used in talking about one's opponents, things one wishes to show disapproval of, and things one wishes to seem to downgrade.

  • Euphemisms & Dysphemisms contains a vast amount of valuable material, much of which is admittedly hard to classify with any precision, for it depends so much on context.


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