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Example sentences for: euphemism

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Diaz then says that 20/20 conducted a "four-month" investigation (TV reporters like to brag about how long they spend on a story, a statistic that by itself means nothing) and was "surprised at what we found" ("surprised" is a TV-news euphemism for "appalled").
I think you're right that ideologues in the Republican Party (and I'm using "ideologue" here as a euphemism for "people of principle," rather than "wild-eyed nut cases") are going to wake up one morning early into the Bush presidency with a terrible hangover.
The authors define a euphemism as
Taboo is here employed in its loosest sense, quite a different one from that demanded by the context of the book, and it would have been better to have described raising taxes as a term that is “politically inexpedient” (itself a useful euphemism).
(Or, to use Clinton's brilliant euphemism, "not having sexual relations."