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Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
I've never been a fan of euphemism.
'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.
I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.
In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.
In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.