Sentence examples for only euphemistically from inspiring English sources

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Her mother refers to cancer only euphemistically, and looks and feels healthy.

In the end, the famine, widely regarded as the worst in recorded history, is only euphemistically mentioned by the phrase that "the project of constructing socialism suffered severe complications".

An opening 0-0 tie against South Africa on Thursday did nothing to heal lingering trauma from a devastating 7-1 loss to Germany at the 2014 World Cup, a national shame that even Neymar's mother can refer to only euphemistically as "the situation".

Indeed, in coverage of Carson's murder, the word, like the 'n-word,' was referred to only euphemistically, as an "antigay slur".

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Rationalist philosophers, chiefly Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides), were very concerned with these questions, and proposed many answers (in Maimonides' case, the answer is usually that texts which talk about God changing are only speaking euphemistically).

Their lands have been confiscated to make way for Jewish-only colonies (now euphemistically termed "neighborhoods").

Disability in this light is not seen as a normal part of the human condition, but as an unspeakable situation that can only be referred to euphemistically as "special" or "exceptional".

In the besieged Syrian town, which made international headlines in January when photos of its starving residents spread around the world, the only medical care facility, slightly euphemistically called the field hospital, is now run by two dentists, an agricultural engineer and a vet.

Neither could many of our allies in the Muslim world, who keep euphemistically suggesting that if only the "Mideast crisis" were resolved, terrorism would diminish.

It's just that under the pretence of the show's puritanical value system, it is only to be performed on the euphemistically named Fantasy Suite dates, and offered only to the final three remaining contestants vying for each season's single star's hand in marriage.

The novel consisted of a single, uninterrupted sentence, and, the author claims, was read by only one person, who called it, perhaps euphemistically, "an exercise in style".

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