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Discover Ludwig"is euphemistic" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
It is typically used when discussing language or expressions that are meant to soften or make something unpleasant or offensive sound more polite or acceptable. Example: The use of the term "passed away" instead of "died" is euphemistic and is often used to comfort those who are grieving.
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is euphemistic
adjective
Of or pertaining to euphemism
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I don't think it is euphemistic, either, though it does, as Gardiner argues, sound bureaucratic.
The recent tragic events is euphemistic and antiseptic, and the catastrophe in New York and Washington too long.
But one glance at the suspiciously darkened cars that collect here in the summer make it clear that "rest" is euphemistic.
In the film's final sequence, an Israeli bulldozer tears apart a Palestinian agricultural plot, and you realize, ever so reluctantly, that the "search" in the title is euphemistic.
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Cake names are euphemistic, as delicious as the cakes themselves.
"It's euphemistic for being fired," he said.
References to his mentor's notorious temper are euphemistic.
That's euphemistic corporate-speak for Rupert dunnit.
There will be euphemistic calls for "inclusiveness" and widening the country's "political space".
She is clearly not being euphemistic then when she describes her fiancé as "so patient and understanding.
In its earlier curriculum materials, CEF was euphemistic about the bloodshed, saying simply that "the Amalekites were completely defeated".
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