Sentence examples for euphemize from inspiring English sources
verb
To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
To call a restroom a lounge is to euphemize euphemism, to touch up the painting of the lily.
Slang sometimes insults or shocks when used directly; some terms euphemize a sensitive concept, though obvious or excessive euphemism may break the taboo more effectively than a less decorous term.
Apparently, this is the result of a psychological necessity to euphemize a somewhat nasty, uncomfortable, or taboo matter, a device also employed for other words that describe seemingly important but improper behaviour or facets of culture.
Because of Chabon's refusal to euphemize the protagonist's homosexual experiences, he attracted a substantial gay following.
The only things missing from this clean, airtight, entirely consistent argument are, well, all the dead babies in the Gosnell clinic — or the dead "precipitated fetuses," to employ the language Gosnell and his associates used to euphemize their practice of delivering and then "snipping" rather than aborting in utero.
He said that 15 to 20 percent of losses was what "everyone learned to live with in 1991 and 1992" and that aid workers even coined a term to euphemize the theft — "traditional distribution" — because even though the food was getting looted, it still ended up in local markets, having the ancillary effect of reducing overall food prices and making food more affordable for the poor.
"Welfare queen" heralded an era in which bigoted views could be euphemized, encoded, and then publicly pronounced thanks to their new patina of plausible deniability.
Outsider art — lately euphemized as "self-taught," a vapid label that inconveniently describes originality in general — comes from and goes nowhere in art history.
But the impact is not clean: the coroner's usual verdict, suicide caused by "multiple blunt-force injuries," euphemizes the devastation.
Political language today is committee-written, focus-tested, strained, bleached, decontaminated, neutralized, euphemized, and paralyzed by the fear of saying something untoward.
It is censoring (or "harmonizing," as it euphemizes) the Internet and dispatching the secret police to arrest willy-nilly, including Ai Weiwei, the famous artist and architect of the Bird's Nest, Beijing's Olympic stadium.
