Example sentences for: euphemistic

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • an expression with connotations that are offensive either about the denotatum or to the audience, or both, and it is substituted for a neutral or euphemistic expression for just that reason.

  • Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.

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


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