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EUPHEMISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language EUPHEMISM. In RHETORIC...urinate. Official euphemisms can be circuitous...generally severe on euphemism. Ronald Ridout...A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk...where we keep the euphemism?’ See...
Metaphors and Euphemisms
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Metaphors and Euphemisms Twenty-first...of metaphor and euphemism when describing...the other hand, euphemism has a long tradition...Distinctive metaphors and euphemisms have emerged from...bagged." The euphemisms extend to those...euthanasia" is a euphemism for murder. For...
Propaganda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...educate. Americans have employed numerous euphemisms for their propaganda in order to distinguish...alike. Increasingly, they turned to euphemisms like "international communication...spawned as many definitions as it has euphemisms. Harold Lass well, a pioneer of propaganda...
Dying, Process of
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...directors, the literal usage of the term "dying" gave way to euphemisms such as "expire," "pass away," or "go to one's reward...abrasive — terminal illness is the preferred clinical euphemism, connoting an aggregation of symptoms rather than a real...
Political Correctness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...movements was the adoption and diffusion of neologisms and euphemisms aimed at enfranchising such groups, the semantics of tolerance...American Indian , Roma for Gypsy , or Inuit for Eskimo ); or euphemisms (such as differently abled for disabled , or educationally...
DOUBLESPEAK
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...limits thought. Doublespeak can be discussed in terms of euphemism, bureaucratese, JARGON , and inflated language. In 1984...world it would no longer use the word killing but instead the euphemism unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life . When asked why...
GENTEELISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...a word or phrase used for genteel reasons: for example, the substitution of tummy for belly . Genteelisms are generally EUPHEMISMS used for evasive ‘polite’ purposes, such as bathroom , lavatory , powder room , restroom , toilet for...
Pseudoscience and Quackery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...alternative medicine, and in 1992 Congress created an Office of Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health . No such euphemisms replaced “pseudoscience,” which, if anything, increased in usage during the late twentieth century...
Mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...candor that is usually associated with mutinous incidents. Thus, actions that are, in fact, mutinies, are often cloaked in euphemisms: during the Vietnam War , the U.S. Army referred to its mutinies as “battlefield refusals,” a rhetorical...
-ISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...linguistic and stylistic terms: anachronism , aphorism , archaism , barbarism , classicism , colloquialism , dysphemism , euphemism initialism , malapropism , neologism , regionalism , solecism , syllogism , truism , verbalism , witticism . (3) Forming...

Dictionary entries related to "Euphemism"

euphemism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology euphemism XVII. — Gr. euphēmismós , f. euphēmízein speak fair, f. eúphēmos fair of speech, f. EU- + phḗmḗ speaking; see FAME , -ISM . So euphemistic XIX.
bendith y mamau
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology bendith y mamau [W., mothers' blessings]. A Glamorganshire euphemism for the fairies, known more often in Wales as tylwyth teg . Euphemism is preferred to avoid kidnapping or fairy mischief. Cf. cwn bendith y mamau [W...
Academies
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...acquired merit on earth, by studying and keeping Torah. To be ‘summoned by the Academy on High’ is a euphemism for death. Academies may also refer to institutions in other religions, e.g. sojae (private academies) and shrine schools...
God, name of in Judaism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Shem (the name) is substituted. In the Aramaic targums , the name of God is often translated memra (word). Similarly, euphemisms are used by the rabbis , such as Rahmana (the Merciful), Ha-Makom (the Place) or Ha-Kadosh Barukh Hu (the Holy One...
cocksure
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cocksure presumptuously or arrogantly confident, the first element from archaic cock as a euphemism for God .
Pygmalion
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...achieved, Eliza utters the words ‘not bloody likely’, which caused a public sensation at the time of the first London production; as a result, Pygmalion became a humorous euphemism for ‘bloody’.
rightsizing
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...involving a full downsizing operation, which can often be overdone. Rightsizing could include increasing the size of an organization to meet increased demand, but it is more often used as a euphemism for moderate and controlled downsizing.
nervous breakdown
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing ...x2018;hysterical’ behaviour to a major mental illness with severe long-term effects on the life of the sufferer. The term is also sometimes used as a euphemism for a frank psychiatric illness, such as schizophrenia.
deuce
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...game, at which a player needs two consecutive points to win the game. deuce 2 • n. ( the deuce ) inf. used as a euphemism for “devil” in expressions of annoyance, impatience, or surprise or for emphasis: how the deuce are...
darned
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English darned / därnd / (also durned / dərnd / ) • adj. inf. euphemism for damned : you have to work a darned sight harder | they're darned good songwriters. DERIVATIVES: darned·est adj.

Thesaurus entries related to "Euphemism"

euphemism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus euphemism • noun  'influential person' is the local euphemism for underworld don synonyms : polite term, indirect term, circumlocution, substitute, alternative, understatement, genteelism.
sin
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...indiscretion are gentler words, although they may be used as euphemisms for sin or crime . A fault is an unsatisfactory feature in...In recent years, however, indiscretion has become a euphemism for such sins as adultery, as if to excuse such behavior...
dastardly
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...reserved for “one who avoids all personal risk,” modern American writers tend to use it as a printable euphemism for the more widely objectionable epithet—e.g.: “Samuel Ramey is the dastard of the piece, the...
synonym
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus synonym • noun  'harsh' may be used as synonym for 'oppressive' synonyms : alternate, substitute, alternative, equivalent, euphemism.
understatement
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...x2022; noun  calling this event unfortunate is a gross understatement synonyms : minimization, trivialization, euphemism; understatedness, restraint, reserve, underplaying, underemphasis; subtlety, delicacy; technical litotes, meiosis...
body
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...body (the battlefield was littered with corpses). A funeral director is likely to prefer the term remains , which is a euphemism for the body of the deceased (he had his wife's remains shipped home for burial), or cremains , if the body has been...
challenge
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...originally serious intention, the term rapidly became stalled by uses whose intention was to make fun of the attempts at euphemism and whose tone was usually clearly ironic: examples include cerebrally challenged , follicularly challenged , etc.
lie
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...sealing them in the envelope, but that you didn't actually get them to the post office. To fib is to tell a falsehood about something unimportant; it is often used as a euphemism for lie (a child who fibs about eating his vegetables).

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EUPHEMISMS LET US CURSE WITHOUT CROSSING THE LINE.(LIFE-TODAY)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/9/2004; 700+ words ; ...fudge'' and ``phooey,'' the new euphemisms clearly represent the common vulgarity...seeped into the common vernacular, euphemisms open the door for some safe cursing...Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Euphemisms like ``flipping,'' he says, are...
These are interesting times for flippin' euphemisms
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 4/25/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...fudge" and "phooey," the new euphemisms clearly represent the common vulgarity...seeped into the common vernacular, euphemisms open the door for some safe cursing...Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Euphemisms like "flipping," he says, are viable...
Bureaucratic euphemisms may lead to protein spill
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/28/1990; ; 692 words ; ...thus they defined a "euphemism," a form of kinder...In our own time, euphemisms multiply more rapidly...are more slang than euphemism. To speak of a top...professional jargon. True euphemisms tend to elevate the...
Euphemism, dysphemism, and the shaping of tax policy.
Magazine article from: Tax Executive; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...I want to talk about the euphemism, and its mirror image, the dysphemism. We all know what a euphemism is - that's when you describe...pursue other opportunities. Euphemisms - terms that soften reality...dysphemism is the obverse of euphemism. It is a term that paints...
FROM EUPHEMISM TO BLOODY LIES.
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...the priest responded. Euphemisms aren't always as witty...the bathroom, and death--euphemisms are white lies, expedient...freedom. We live in an age of euphemisms. In America it's O.K...Political correctness is the euphemism made instinctive. It is the...
What's another word for euphemism?(Insight)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 6/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...Harvest is the latest euphemism for killing, and it...of the emergence of euphemisms (under the Obama administration...allegedly milquetoast euphemisms of Obama, he persisted...stare unblinkingly at euphemisms such as enhanced interrogation...an overused military euphemism that obscures the ...
Expletives deleted; With children in the car, euphemisms rule.(WHEELS)
Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 10/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...Byline: Peter Kenter I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. 'Cause Americans have a lot of...Late comedian George Carlin, on euphemisms Even the prissiest driver, when...
In Search of the Appropriate Euphemism
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/4/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the more appalling euphemisms of recent vintage...Goodwin, we have a new euphemism that makes "hospitality...about as ingenious a euphemism as one can imagine...merely that, but the euphemism passed into the language...giving birth to baby euphemisms faster even than that...
Book of euphemisms races a dance of words
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/17/2003; ; 504 words ; Book of euphemisms traces a dance of words...Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms" (Oxford, $18.95...the word was a Victorian euphemism, though why "bags" should...words we no longer consider euphemisms started out that way...
This is no euphemism--an advocate is an advocate.(CUSTOMER SERVICE)(Survey)
Magazine article from: IGWB: International Gaming & Wagering Business; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; A euphemism is a less direct word or phrase used in...make someone feel better. Some would say euphemisms are just a way of sugar coating things...future success anymore. Advocacy is no euphemism. People think I'm being cute when I...