Sentence examples for euphemistic for from inspiring English sources

"It's euphemistic for being fired," he said.

"Of course, they all have euphemistic terms, "For Seniors" or "For Prosperity," or whatever it is, but really it's just cover," she said.

She has said her agency will devote as much attention to preparing for natural disasters as for "man-caused disasters," her euphemistic term for terrorism.

Mugabe's generals call it Operation "Who Did You Vote For?" Their henchmen have a less euphemistic name for their activity: Operation "Let Us Finish Them Off".

In a poem called "A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties," for example, Hirsch strings together the euphemistic names for methods of torture, fashioning a kind of antic dance step, meant to expose the dark side of Reagan-era prosperity.

In addition to harsher sentences for rape and acid attacks, and for rapes in police custody, it criminalises "eve-teasing", the coy and euphemistic name for the sexual harassment – the stalking, groping and lewd comments – that every Indian woman is forced to navigate every time she walks out of her home.

"Penetration testing" is a euphemistic term for hacking.

"The Troubles" is a euphemistic phrase for a still-raw piece of modern British history.

There will be euphemistic calls for "inclusiveness" and widening the country's "political space".

An aubergine, to be clear, is the euphemistic emoji for a penis.

In typical blue-collar fashion, Southside Johnny Lyon had no euphemistic excuse for his band's absence.