Sentence examples for that euphemism from inspiring English sources

By refusing to utter even that legalism, the House showed that euphemism can end only in embarrassed silence.

Some are paying deposits for private schools, others attend church every Sunday to secure places at church schools, while the majority have bought or rented near to a "good" school, that euphemism that denotes an outstanding Ofsted report and an almost exclusively middle-class intake.

AFCENT failed to provide additional details about the missions, those targeted, or that euphemism, "neutralization," which was once a favored term of the CIA's often muddled and sometimes murderous Phoenix Program that targeted the civilian "infrastructure" of America's enemies during the Vietnam War.

He is very fond of that euphemism.

Aren't you sick of that euphemism "family planning"?

(That euphemism, according to the dictionary, first appeared in 1973, in this newspaper).

This is highlighted, for instance, in the way that euphemisms like "alt-right" and "fake news" have echoed through contemporary media discussions.

Linfoot-Ham (2005, p. 228) believes that euphemisms "protect the speaker/writer, hearer/reader, or all of the above".

Allan and Burridge (1991, p. 11) believe that euphemisms "avoid possible loss of face: either one's own face or … that of the audience".

Bowers and Pleydell-Pearce (2011, p. 2) believe that euphemisms "allow speakers (and listeners) to think about issues that might otherwise be avoided".

However, laboratory studies demonstrate that euphemisms are more likely to be produced in service of saving the producer's face rather than the recipient's face (McGlone & Batchelor, 2003).