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euphemistic

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

委婉的,委婉,婉转的,委婉地说

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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

  • This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

  • “ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] is just a euphemistic way of saying, ‘I have limits,’” Brown writes.

  • Take it from Ben Bernanke, who keeps begging Congress (in that euphemistic Fed-speak way) to do something to help the economy.

  • Nowhere does this report, even in the most euphemistic terms possible, discuss the rage problem.

  • We may note here the euphemistic tendency to call powerful spirits by propitiatory names.

  • But this is the usual attitude of the folk towards the "Good People," as indeed their euphemistic name really implies.

  • It is said that on this occasion they were first called Eumenides (“the kindly”), a euphemistic variant of their real name.

  • The Pioneer was as euphemistic in speaking of death as was the Greek or Roman of classic times.

  • They trace their origin to the same source whence come the notions of propitiating the fairies by euphemistic names.