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euphemious

/yoo-fuh-miz-uhm/US // ˈyu fəˌmɪz əm //UK // (ˈjuːfɪˌmɪzəm) //

婉转的,婉转,悠扬的,婉约

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
    • : the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”

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Examples

  • In 1924, a local meteorologist published a pamphlet titled “In the Zone of Filtered Sunshine” that touted the city’s “sunbreaks” — a euphemism for incessantly cloudy conditions — that helped keep summers cool and pleasant.

  • You proposed to give us “some time,” a “pause” in our sweet courtship of almost two years, but I know well that this is the most common euphemism for not hurting the other person too much when you want to end a love relationship.

  • People refer to its euphemism “accelerator” or “scientific internet surfing tool” otherwise.

  • It’s the height of brand-as-euphemism—less about aspiration than sneaking unglamorous ideas into consumers’ heads with a friendly, accessible gloss.

  • The dialogue in Made for Love is great—funny, distinctive and observant about the way tech euphemisms can invade the physical world and change the way we think.

  • The euphemism most commonly used by convicts for dying is to “be taken off the count.”

  • The euphemism of “collateral damage” comes with that package.

  • Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment.

  • A commonly-used euphemism for this phenomenon is that the technology “is not yet mature.”

  • Babylon could be a euphemism for Rome or it could just be a metaphor for imagined exile.

  • As there are many Corsican policemen on the Continent they use this euphemism to designate the ignoble calling they follow.

  • He reported having received information that Rosecrans was being reënforced, but in this again he may be suspected of a euphemism.

  • For market competition (as already quoted) "is a euphemism for railroad policy."

  • She used terms regarding cathedrals and pictures for which boredom is the mildly polite euphemism.

  • The suggestion of smallpox appears to be the same euphemism which was resorted to in the cases of other exalted personages.