Innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive.
Sinònims
Examples for "euphemism"
Examples for "euphemism"
1I don't want them to think I need a euphemism at all.
2In the Chinese saying, 'sharing a pillow' is a euphemism for sex.
3Reaction to this campaign has been, to use the favoured euphemism, mixed.
4Sometimes a euphemism is more true than what it's supposed to hide.
5But when the words finally came, they were shorn of all euphemism.
1It is euphemistically called self-funding and goes right down to U-16 level.
2There's tea, I said, glancing toward what we euphemistically called our kitchen.
3Her mother refers to cancer only euphemistically, and looks and feels healthy.
4The Army euphemistically calls this getting inside an enemy's decision cycle.
5But in truth, Tyson is speaking somewhat euphemistically when he refers to passion.
1We use don't use that last word in any euphemistic sense.
Translations for euphemistic sense