Sentence examples for a euphemism of from inspiring English sources

A model call is a euphemism of sorts for stylist training night.

A number of newspapers noted with surprise that she was a "brunette", which appeared to be a euphemism of sorts.

" Some critics have argued that the suggestion of mere risk-taking here, and not intentional overdosing, is simply a euphemism of the kind frequently employed in Lily's world, where well-bred people never referred to suicide.

We've used a euphemism of "choice" for years.

It also had something I've never seen at a rock concert, a "safe haven" tent devoted to "Friends of Bill W", a euphemism for members of Alcoholics Anonymous.

During the campaign, their most common call was for a "phased redeployment" — a euphemism for withdrawal — of American troops starting before the end of this year.

Abolitionists are often accused of not developing a full-fledged program for emancipation, since they opposed compensation for slaveholders and long periods of "apprenticeship," a euphemism for new forms of servitude, for emancipated slaves.

That's a euphemism for "overthrow of government" or "toppling Saddam".

The expression derives from "kicking the bucket," a euphemism for dying of obscure origin but blunt and vivid suggestiveness.

If "transition" is a euphemism for "out of work," I would say, don't give up.

This albatross is about to get even heavier with the likely passage of the so-called Patients' Bill of Rights, a euphemism for a lawyers' bill of rights.