- 看过 euphemistic 的人也看了 :
- grandiloquence
- circumlocution
- delicacy
- inflation
- pomposity
- pretense
- floridness
- purism
euphemistic 的定义
- 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.”
euphemistic 近义词
polite
更多euphemistic例句
- 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.