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- noun Plural form of
euphemist .
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Examples
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So much backlash from the poltically "correct", euphemists and apologists, like all the Palin-fawning guests featured yesterday on the supposedly unbiased Diane Rehm Show on NPR.
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Love, if not blind, was often vision-impaired, as the euphemists called it.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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He was quite in the prime of life, and so agreeable and unassuming that nothing could be urged against him save his patronymic, which, being Boggs, did not commend itself to the euphemists.
The Shape of Fear Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898
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He was quite in the prime of life, and so agreeable and unassuming that nothing could be urged against him save his patronymic, which, being Boggs, did not commend itself to the euphemists.
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In literature, we have the versifiers, epigrammatists, and rhetors of the Latin decadence; the sensual and declamatory dramatists who represent the last stages of old English comedy; and the makers of sonnets and madrigals, or conceited euphemists of the Gongora school, in the decline of Italian and Spanish poetry.
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In literature, we have the versifiers, epigrammatists, and rhetors of the Latin decadence; the sensual and declamatory dramatists who represent the last stages of old English comedy; and the makers of sonnets and madrigals, or conceited euphemists of the Gongora school, in the decline of Italian and Spanish poetry.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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Should you believe the euphemists who say the jobs report is not so bad?
Euro zone debt crisis magnifies North-South Split - Barrons.com 2010
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Should you believe the euphemists who say the jobs report is not so bad?
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Should you believe the euphemists who say the jobs report is not so bad?
J.M. Smucker: A food stock with lots of upside. - Barrons.com 2010
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Should you believe the euphemists who say the jobs report is not so bad?
J.M. Smucker: A food stock with lots of upside. - Barrons.com 2010
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