Example sentences for: euphemism

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

  • Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.

  • It is simply a euphemism for state-run video poker machines.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 252: "Euphemism?


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