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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
euphemise .
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Examples
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It reserves it for the most part for something a great deal more dreadful than the separation of body and soul, and uses all manner of periphrases, or what rhetoricians call euphemising, that is, gentle expressions which put the best face upon a thing instead of the ugly word itself.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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One thing about that Derbyshire article is that in the case of definitely one, and possibly two of the swear-words he's euphemising, I don't honestly know which he's talking about.
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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Among several complaints, the resolution says that a textbook used until 2003 used pejorative language to describe the crusaders while "euphemising Muslim conquest of Christian lands as 'migrations'".
BBC Ouch! Blog 2010
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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Among several complaints, the resolution says that a textbook used until 2003 used pejorative language to describe the crusaders while "euphemising Muslim conquest of Christian lands as 'migrations'".
BBC News - Home 2010
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However, there is the small matter of a new, £400m stadium, which I'm sure you can understand, incurred quite a large debt, which through some creative financial management (and I'm not euphemising anything here) means they will be paying off £20m of debt a year on a total liability of something around the £200m mark.
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