euphemize

Example Sentences

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An America that euphemizes this grievance as a matter of “race relations,” and in the process consecrates race as a natural category, is an America that still isn’t confronting its reality.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2016

It is something we are supposed to look away from; even our language looks away, euphemizes, prettifies.

From Time • Mar. 8, 2016

Or is it just “full makeup,” as this Times story euphemizes?

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2012

He, President William Green, euphemizes strikes as "our economic powers."

From Time Magazine Archive