Sentence examples for an euphemism from inspiring English sources

However, "young adult" is not an euphemism for "overgrown teenager", and once a person has turned 18, it's time for them to start setting off on the path that will eventually lead them to an independent life.

Even so, officials have still not ruled out the possibility that he was the victim of some random crime or hooliganism, an euphemism often used in cases of ethnic violence, including the stabbing death of a 9-year-old Tajik girl in February and that of the son of Libya's cultural attaché this month.

La petit mort, the little death, an euphemism for sexual orgasm.

Being white and unemployed in Detroit is often an euphemism for being a drug dealer or having a modest trust fund.

According to the book 'Nuevo Catauro de Cubanismos', by Fernando Ortiz, Spanish 'conquistadores' used the word 'papo' as an euphemism for the women's genitals and later a 'phonetic derivation' in Cuba gave the word papaya the same meaning!

(And when I say "slept on our streets," that's not an euphemism. He slept in doorways, under bridges, in parking lots and once, he told me, in a large industrial dryer (although he said he couldn't get his legs all the way in)).

"It was a generalization, a euphemism.

A bad choice for a euphemism, but it was a euphemism".

"Something else" is not a euphemism for a swear word.

Was it a euphemism for a mind-altering substance?

It's a euphemism for a madhouse, of course.