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Significats de euphemistically 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 "euphemism"
Examples for "euphemism"
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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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We use don't use that last word in any euphemistic sense.
The Irish Times
Ús de euphemistically en anglès
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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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But you never see it on the screen, where people always talk euphemistically.
The Irish Times
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Then there were also what the CIA euphemistically called thugs, drugs, and outlaws.
Act of treason
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This bailiwick also offered what might be euphemistically called 'business opportunities' to enterprising members.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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The process is euphemistically advertised by middlemen as "citizenship by investment".
The Guardian
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They were what is euphemistically called a little mixed.
Roden's Corner
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Even the Pet Shop Boys' unsatisfactory performance was euphemistically marked up as "divisive".
The Irish Times
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Their lives had led nowhere, or rather, to a prison euphemistically called a protective camp.
A Long Way from Home
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Demetrius, indeed, had accomplished what he euphemistically described as "a fair night's work."
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
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Davey had long ago refused to talk about it, and Alden referred to it only euphemistically.
The hellfire club
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A day for what is euphemistically termed Munster rugby and few play it better than Ireland.
The Irish Times
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Such individuals in these days of disguising bad deeds under grand names are euphemistically designated kleptomaniacs.
The Book-Hunter in London / Historical and Other Studies of Coll...
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