Example sentences for: dysphemistic

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

  • Many city names express hope, as in New Hope , and New Freedom , Pennsylvania, New Era , Michigan, and the dozens of cities named Paradise . Once in a while, however, a place gets a dysphemistic name, such as the Badlands in South Dakota, or Great Dismal Swamp , which is a 1500-square-mile section of Virginia and North Carolina.

  • , in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.

  • 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.

  • What I am getting at, to paraphrase the infinite wisdom of Pigs is pigs , is that shit is shit , and there is nothing dysphemistic about it (unless used “in talking about one's opponents”)--that is, it is the context that determines whether it is dysphemistic, which is again dependent on whether it was the intention of the speaker to use a taboo word in place of socially acceptable one.

  • In other words (to keep on explaining this simple but hard-to-articulate point), in order for an expression to be dysphemistic it must be the intention of the user to employ it to an insulting, derogatory, or otherwise offensive purpose.


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