euphemisms

Example Sentences

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House Speaker Mike Johnson could win an award for military euphemisms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

And it could shift the national conversation from euphemisms and proxies to the real question: What do we owe the descendants of those who built this country?

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025

In one of the film’s most charged moments, Peck turns Orwell’s warning about political language into a montage of modern euphemisms: “peacekeeping operations,” “collateral damage,” “illegals” — and then, pointedly, “antisemitism 2024.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Social media generally breeds this problem of people getting so enmeshed in their subcultures that they forget that most people don't share their jargon or euphemisms.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

But Titi Generosa wasn’t inclined toward elegant speech, nor toward euphemisms.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago