Example sentences for: euphemistic

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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