euphemistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Twelve states and the District of Columbia currently allow some form of what is euphemistically called “medical aid in dying.”
Aames Financial, like The Money Store, belonged to a new category of firms extending loans to cash-strapped Americans, known euphemistically as “specialty finance.”
From Literature
Both sides keep running into an intrinsic limit: Everything expires after exactly 29 minutes, exploding into digital ash in a process euphemistically called de-resolution.
Like the characters in “Pacific Overtures,” we too are living in interesting times, as the old curse euphemistically puts it.
From Los Angeles Times
Governments, for instance, can use what’s euphemistically referred to as “creative accounting” — counting things as protected that probably should not be considered protected.
From Salon
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