Words similar to euphemism
Example sentences for: euphemism
How can you use “euphemism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The naked terms for such a traditionally taboo subject as the toilet have always proved too much to bear for polite society, which hastily covered the bare-cheeked shame of them with a blanket of euphemism.
I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost.
(Or, to use Clinton's brilliant euphemism, "not having sexual relations."
Split Ends a Cosmetology Shop is a nice example of appositional elegance combined with euphemism in the appositive and the low key or off-beat opening.
(I use the word "installed" rather loosely, considering that the damn thing crashes every time you try to print a Word document and will not allow you to print anything in "best mode"--a euphemism for the really really slow mode that you have to invoke if you actually will need to subsequently read whatever you printed out.)