Sentence examples for benign euphemism from inspiring English sources
Some of the other remains held in the boxes at Mitchell (which I'm not permitted, out of deference to the dead, to open) belong to Indigenous Australians who died in colonial institutions – jails, hospitals and asylums – and, scarcely cold, were "anatomised" (a benign euphemism for butchery).
Talk about a benign euphemism.
As I told a TEDx audience recently, after visiting that first facility back then, I knew the euphemisms were deceptively benign.
But if the popular name for their clashes sounds benign, it has become a cruel euphemism over the years, conveying nothing of the hatreds and lurking violence that characterize what may be the oldest, and the most dangerous, crosstown rivalry in all of sports.
"Affected by material error" (in European Union parlance) means money stolen from the budget.But euphemisms can also be benign, even necessary.
Business and euphemism flourished.
Is "passionate" a euphemism?
What's your favorite euphemism?
Even that is a euphemism.
