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- verb Alternative spelling of
euphemize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb refer to something with a euphemism
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Examples
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By the way those who decide not to euphemise the term amnesty are not necessarily racist, though this is the usual come back by pro-illegal immigration liberals.
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Some more writing stuff: a few members of my local writing group decided, as a group exercise, to write stories for the recent Apex Digest "sci fi ghost story" contest and my entry bronzed, as we supporters of the Olympic movement euphemise.
Newsy you Usey 2007
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However, you can euphemise all you like, but the underlying meaning stands out like a flasher in a nunnery see also 'ethnic cleansing' and 'budget airline'.
The Definition of Eligible juliette 2008
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However, you can euphemise all you like, but the underlying meaning stands out like a flasher in a nunnery see also 'ethnic cleansing' and 'budget airline'.
Archive 2008-04-01 juliette 2008
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The British today, still tried to euphemise this massacre as a result of a certain Tibetan who "mistakenly" opened the "first shot", i.e. deep inside Tibetan's homeland to a heavily armed invading army
Revelation of an American Hawk, about Myanmar Sun Bin 2008
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Except for those pink people, I guess, who obviously have such a problem with, uh, physical aspects of digital fictional characters that we have to euphemise said physical aspects lest we scare them off.
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Some more writing stuff: a few members of my local writing group decided, as a group exercise, to write stories for the recent Apex Digest "sci fi ghost story" contest and my entry bronzed, as we supporters of the Olympic movement euphemise.
December 2005 2005
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Some more writing stuff: a few members of my local writing group decided, as a group exercise, to write stories for the recent Apex Digest "sci fi ghost story" contest and my entry bronzed, as we supporters of the Olympic movement euphemise.
The Machine Stops 2005
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And if he's going to euphemise English, why not accord the same "respect" to Mandarin and Magyar?
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[87] Heaven becomes a dumb picture; and death -- euphemise it as we may -- merely blank annihilation.
Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877
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