Words similar to euphemistic
Example sentences for: euphemistic
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Stark nude is euphemistic for stark naked.
Some of us might be inclined to view terms like under-achiever as psychologist's or educationist's euphemistic jargon for dope ; but such descriptive designations, deliberately nonspecific and presumably neutral (at least for the time being), are in keeping with the view of the human intellect taken in these closing years of the 20th century.
creative `adjective, euphemistic going beyond conventional scope or legal limits .. This new meaning of creative, with its implication of imaginative rule-bending for possibly disreputable purposes, appears to have been coined in the field of accountancy .. , but has since widened its area of application considerably.
M.F. , a euphemistic form of motherfucker , had been attested to 1964; we found a 1959 example buried in Robert Gold's excellent Jazz Lexicon.
Several of the citations referred to World War Two, and a euphemistic 1940 example of fuckfaced suggested that these terms were in use in the 1940s.
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