euphemism
noun
Origin of euphemism
Related Words for euphemistic
inoffensive, affected, delicate, figurative, indirect, metaphorical, mild, refined, vagueExamples from the Web for euphemistic
Contemporary Examples of euphemistic
This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim PresidentPierre Assouline
January 9, 2015
“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.
Historical Examples of euphemistic
The euphemistic plural disappeared at the first syllable from Blanche.
The Thousandth WomanErnest W. Hornung
Rakshas means protector, and is, probably, an euphemistic term.
Indian Fairy TalesAnonymous
They give it euphemistic and deceitful names—auburn, bronze, Titian.
Damn!Henry Louis Mencken
We may note here the euphemistic tendency to call powerful spirits by propitiatory names.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
I do not think this is a euphemistic way of saying he had a good opinion of himself.
Wagner as I Knew HimFerdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger