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- noun Plural form of
euphemism .
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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 2006
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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 2006
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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 2006
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Huck, while you speak in euphemisms of "feelings" regarding math, the actual WASL math problems completely contradict your assertions.
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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 2006
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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 2006
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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 2006
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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 2006
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What they call euphemisms, I call “inventive invective” and regard as a sign of wit.
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And my twins asked me what all these words meant, these slang euphemisms for sex acts and body parts.
Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS Meredith O'Brien/GateHouse News Service 2010
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