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:
One deplores "Microspeak," the company's hideous, responsibility-avoiding euphemisms: A bug, for example, is a "known issue."
), its unblinking, look-you-in-the-eye reliance on euphemisms ("In the unlikely event of a water landing ..."
His interviews tend to focus on the more educated, affluent segments of the middle class, segments that may more easily slip into genteel euphemisms and present themselves as "enlightened."
The text is organized into ten chapters titled “The Lexicon for Bodily Effluvia, Sex, and Tabooed Body-Parts,” “Euphemisms in Addressing and Naming,” “Taboo Terms as Insults, Epithets, and Expletives,” and so on; without a word and phrase index, access to particular expressions is denied, thus reducing the usefulness of the work.
The word privy is one of the earliest euphemisms used in England; an anonymous writer at the turn of the fifteenth century advised whanne he sitteth at privy he schal not streyne him-silf to harde.
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