euphemistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Like the characters in “Pacific Overtures,” we too are living in interesting times, as the old curse euphemistically puts it.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
In 1943, British colonial administrators in Bengal fastidiously avoided the word, speaking euphemistically of “the India food question.”
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2024
It's not just the problem of what is euphemistically called "candidate quality," either.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024
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 "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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