Example sentences for: euphemistic

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

  • Jeepers creepers is nothing other than a euphemistic cover-up for the curse Jesus Christ.

  • For Americans, that phrase "international community" is not abstract or cynical or euphemistic; and we try to make good on its implications.

  • Stark nude is euphemistic for stark naked.

  • 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.

  • The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)


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