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Using a mild term for an offensive one
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euphemistic
Word definitions for euphemistic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. of or pertaining to euphemism
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term" [syn: inoffensive ] [ant: dysphemistic ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Simon's euphemistic descriptions of wartime crimes have been heavily criticized. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All is euphemistic denial of the one fact of both. ▪ In the past, reasons for changing clubs have been couched ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830; see euphemism + -istic . Related: Euphemistically (1833).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Euphemistic \Eu`phe*mis"tic\, Euphemistical \Eu`phe*mis"tic*al\, a. Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly , adv.
Usage examples of euphemistic.
Platonic tenderness and protectiveness, together with all those other euphemistic synonyms, that make them eager to assist the weak and fragile, to try to educate and elevate, and particularly to find out just how weak, fragile, uneducated and unelevated a helpless lady may be.
Here everything has an exclamatory glow about it, a euphemistic sheen to needs manufactured and met.
I was silent an instant, thinking how to find words passably comprehensible and yet conventionally circumlocutory and euphemistic.
Once inside, he discovered that it was a bathroom merely in the euphemistic application of the term, containing as it did only a toilet and a minuscule wash-hand basin.