Words similar to euphony
Example sentences for: euphony
How can you use “euphony” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?
On the grounds of euphony, many would reject words beginning with p or containing a k -sound; on other grounds, there may be someone out there whose favorite word is kreplach.
The problem is that the words selected— summer afternoon (Henry James), powwow, pulchritude, punctuate (Shirley Lord), Preposterous (Charles Krauthammer), delegate (Maxwell M. Raab)--often appeal because of personal association and not for euphony (unlike classics like murmur and smooth ).
' Ton is not the word for `tone': it is not even a standard Spanish word, being a nonceword in this expression, mainly for rhyme and euphony.
It enjoys life not only as an interjection but also as a noun ("The movie's real duh of a raison d'être"-- Village Voice ) and an adjective ("That's so duh you've got to smile"-- Los Angeles Times ). Bummer , one 1960s word that really did get its start in the '60s drug culture, is also proving its hardiness, a testament both to the term's euphony and to the ubiquity of bummers in the world at large.
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