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Significats de euphemism en anglès

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Innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive.

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Examples for "euphemistically"
Examples for "euphemistically"
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It is euphemistically called self-funding and goes right down to U-16 level.
The Irish Times
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There's tea, I said, glancing toward what we euphemistically called our kitchen.
A duty to the dead
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Her mother refers to cancer only euphemistically, and looks and feels healthy.
The new yorker
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The Army euphemistically calls this getting inside an enemy's decision cycle.
Private Sector
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But in truth, Tyson is speaking somewhat euphemistically when he refers to passion.
The Guardian
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We use don't use that last word in any euphemistic sense.
The Irish Times
Ús de euphemism en anglès
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I don't want them to think I need a euphemism at all.
The Guardian
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In the Chinese saying, 'sharing a pillow' is a euphemism for sex.
Reuters
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Reaction to this campaign has been, to use the favoured euphemism, mixed.
The Guardian
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Sometimes a euphemism is more true than what it's supposed to hide.
Choke
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But when the words finally came, they were shorn of all euphemism.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
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Indeed, K street has become a euphemism for the world of lobbyists.
The Guardian
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What was the use of this term but a euphemism for insanity?
The House of the Vampire
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I hope you don't think I'm using a euphemism for violence.
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
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Not in the least; it would be a mere euphemism,-baseflattery, in fact.
A Chance Acquaintance
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That term is widely seen as a euphemism for organised crime in Japan.
Reuters
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A euphemism is a polite way of obscuring an uncomfortable or unpleasant truth.
The Guardian
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You see, there's been some...oh, let's just use the coy euphemism 'unpleasantness'...this summer.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
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And at times control has been a euphemism for excessive caution.
The Guardian
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The Koran resorts to no euphemism or circumlocution in declaring it.
Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
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This egregious euphemism was Bosnia's contribution to the language of war.
The Irish Times
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Runcorn assures me it is not debt, he said, glossing over the euphemism.
Funeral in Blue
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