euphemism
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That’s great, but do we really need so much euphemism?
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
It comes just weeks after Zhang was removed from his post, after he was accused of "serious violations of discipline and law" - typically a euphemism for corruption.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
At 19, I had “top surgery”—a euphemism for an elective double mastectomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Like others interviewed, Gudiño declined to offer any political views, especially “after what happened” — the common euphemism for the U.S. attack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
As unsettling to me as the photos’ purpose was the fact that they weren’t called something else—say, employee contingency portraits, or some other euphemism.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
James Madison’s notes seemed to confirm what Garrisonians believed: Whatever euphemisms the Constitution employed, some framers knew they were accommodating slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rather than call out the dangerous lunacy in plain view, the Times has chosen to engage in tortured euphemisms.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
They use euphemisms online to communicate the things they are not supposed to mention.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
What first clued me in to the remarkable frequency with which complaints about men’s cleanliness appear on Reddit was repeatedly encountering one of the most awfully evocative euphemisms in the English language: skid mark.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
Amaranta felt so uncomfortable with her defective diction and her habit of using euphemisms to designate everything that she would always speak gibberish in front of her.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing euphemism
The Great Gatsby
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Rhetoric
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