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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
euphemistic
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 in euphemistic terms, such as the need for a fresh challenge.
▪ Neutral, euphemistic, alliterative, you distanced yourself from the idea of neighbours killing each other.
▪ Yet other occupations that upgraded themselves in the past enjoy euphemistic names that are no longer questioned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Euphemistic

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
euphemistic

1830; see euphemism + -istic. Related: Euphemistically (1833).

Wiktionary
euphemistic

a. of or pertaining to euphemism

WordNet
euphemistic

adj. of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term" [syn: inoffensive] [ant: dysphemistic]

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.