euphemize
Example Sentences
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That changing landscape and the dwindling opportunities therein, whether euphemized as “luxury development,” “slum clearance” or “vintage micro-units,” served as a catalyst for filmmaker A.V.
From Los Angeles Times
And he barely bothered euphemizing his racist justifications for his belief that he is the "real" winner of the 2020 election.
From Salon
In real life the aging Philip made headlines mostly in the form of jovial utterances that the British press spent decades euphemizing as gaffes but that we might more accurately call bigoted.
From Washington Post
These authors “lavish praise on Trump while fantasizing about his policies and euphemizing, or simply ignoring, his worst tendencies.”
From Washington Post
Wiener may euphemize it as “the social network everyone hated,” but no one has hated it more colorfully than McNeil.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.