euphemisms

• “The administration's approach to the press has become increasingly Orwellian, cloaked in euphemisms and newspeak, routinely describing its positions as their opposites and blatantly denying contradictions and shifts in government policy.”

  Balkinization

• “Huck, while you speak in euphemisms of "feelings" regarding math, the actual WASL math problems completely contradict your assertions.”

  Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations

• “What they call euphemisms, I call “inventive invective” and regard as a sign of wit.”

  dustbury.com » The InstaPunk Challenge

• “And my twins asked me what all these words meant, these slang euphemisms for sex acts and body parts.”

  Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS

• “.... that death can be mocked rather than whispered about in euphemisms.”

  What good things have you learned from Mexican People

• “One fairly clever way to solve this problem has been for cultures to adopt foreign equivalents of daring native words as 'euphemisms'.”

  Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms

• “On top of these interesting developments, I had the misfortune of tuning into a current heated debate unfolding on the National Women's Studies listserv which is presently discussing "female genital mutilation" in the Third World and the problems of using "euphemisms" like "female genital surgeries" - I KID YOU NOT!”

  Did the Tears Work? And Other Silly Discussions about Politics

• “Thus, the "euphemisms" knockers, boobs, and tits are scarcely that for breasts.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4

• “Clearly we don't often hear about 'El Día de los Fallecidos' (although I have heard it used), but we all have our euphemisms.”

  'Passing' in San Miguel

• “Ehrlich also twitted O'Malley for using euphemisms: preferring to talk about "new Americans" rather than illegal immigrants.”

  The Washington Post: Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley

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