Words similar to euphemisms

Example sentences for: euphemisms

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

Yet it would appear, from the amount of comment published in the British press, that the subject concerns people in Britain more than people in the U.S.A recent report from Charles Bremner, their New York correspondent, appeared on the front page of The Times . It dealt with what Bremner characterized as the “new plague of euphemisms” that threatens to overcome meaningful communication between Americans.
Probably because of his five and a half year imprisonment, he is impatient with the euphemisms and lies of politics.
One deplores "Microspeak," the company's hideous, responsibility-avoiding euphemisms: A bug, for example, is a "known issue."
Funny are the ingenious hybrids, elaborate euphemisms and novel insult-categories.
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.