Sentence examples for euphemized as from inspiring English sources
The phrase "euphemized as" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to a term or phrase that has been softened or made less harsh in its expression. Example: "The term 'downsizing' is often euphemized as 'rightsizing' to make the process sound less negative."
The military "snafu" is an acronym often euphemized as "situation normal, all fouled up".
The enforcer, sometimes mocked as a goon or euphemized as a tough guy, may be hockey's favorite archetype.
By the time the President got to his own four-step proposal, which calls for higher taxes on the rich (euphemized as lowering "spending through the tax code") the Republican alternative was a smoking ruin.
The act of extra-legal killing, sometimes euphemized as vigilantism, is more properly called lynching, an act that can be celebrated on screen these days provided its racial history is laid aside.
Though hooking up seems a mediumistic metaphor for what used to be euphemized as "sleeping together," it is more romantic than the phrase in current use on college campuses: parallel parking.
In India, it is euphemized as "eve teasing," suggesting innocent flirtation and fun, while absolving the perpetrator from blame.
Thus, even for participants with a personal connection to disability, the euphemism special needs conveys as much negativity as the non-euphemized term disability or the names of specific disabilities (e.g., blind), again indicating that special needs is an ineffective euphemism.
The goal of our study was to examine empirically whether the euphemism special needs is indeed more positive than the non-euphemized term disability among the general population, as well as among parents of children with disabilities, people who provide services to persons with disabilities, and other people with a personal connection to disability.
There must be no euphemized, hobbled bill bearing a false label of disclosure.
Molotch's course is called "The Urban Toilet," and its remarkable syllabus reads almost like a parody of Allan Bloom's worst nightmare, bringing the jargon of gender and ethnic studies, city planning, and industrial design to bear on the most euphemized of subjects.
