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.)


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