Definition of Euphemism

Euphemism

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

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Euphemism Quotations

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy

"Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Andrea Dworkin

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George Schultz

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
Bobbie Gentry

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Euphemism Translations

euphemism in German is Euphemismus
euphemism in Italian is eufemismo

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