Euphemisms

But while their scenes together are most memorable for their creative insults, outrageous euphemisms, and explosive physicality, they also serve as a set of subtle storytelling moments.

Church officials would often use euphemisms to minimize the severity of sexual abuse by clergy.

I’m not crazy about “She isn’t here anymore,” because it’s a euphemism that opens another can of worms (as I think most euphemisms do).

Women I know became fluent in paraphernalia with names ranging from puns (the My Brest Friend nursing pillow) to euphemisms (the Simple Wishes hands-free pumping bra).

He observed that the current euphemisms of “‘reproductive health care,’ ‘ending suffering,’ and ‘no one would want to live like that’” so common in secular systems today are reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

It’s a lawless, sly strategy that can be defended only through the use of euphemisms like “modern-day adaptable governance” — as well as implausible attributions of all that is good and right to the rogue administrative state.

The euphemisms were flying when Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles announced last week than an extra $50 billion would be spent on our military over the next decade, and that $72.8 billion of already announced spending would be redirected.

The writing tries to cover for that cattiness, surpassing even Axios in its euphemisms for lying.

Mr. de Grandmont laughed as he explained that they had sometimes miscommunicated and blundered because they didn’t know cultural connotations, euphemisms and slang.

The swirl of emotions defines the track as it plays on euphemisms and metaphors of being high on any kind of substance or person.

They could have said clink, the jug, stir, the slammer, nick, the calaboose, or any number of racy euphemisms.

Euphemisms these days, right?

First, the employee said that some of the World Bank’s communications with the Xinjiang government seemed to contain euphemisms for the policy of mass detention.

The Health Infrastructure team need to state clearly that the terms ‘all services transferred’, ‘relocating all services’ and ‘replaced’ are actually euphemisms for ‘closing as a hospital’.

Using euphemisms does not pass the clear communications test.

Well, first of all, yes, being “let go,” or “laid off,” or having your “position eliminated,” due to something like a “reduction in workforce” are all euphemisms for the same thing — losing your job, which means fired.

After listing off several euphemisms for death ("is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests in peace", and "this is an ex-parrot") he is told to go to the pet shop run by the shopkeeper's brother in Bolton for a refund.

At Chapman's memorial service, Cleese delivered an irreverent eulogy that included all the euphemisms for being dead from the "Dead Parrot" sketch, which they had written.

Bureaucracies frequently spawn euphemisms of a more deliberate nature, doublespeak expressions.

Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.