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Euphemistically
Euphemistically meaning
In a euphemistic manner.
Example sentences (12)
Davis tackled the enemy and “defeated” him — as the Army euphemistically puts it — with his bare hands.
Police say they do not believe there is a wider threat to the public, implying they think the attacker worked alone, and that they were not treating the stabbing as what the law-enforcement community euphemistically calls a ‘hate crime’.
It was found that around their euphemistically-named “wind farms,” temperatures are rising at 0.72 centigrade per decade.
To be fair, the president has admitted euphemistically that opening up the country rapidly will have consequences: “Will some people be affected?
Because paying the NPA what it euphemistically calls “revolutionary taxes” is a lot cheaper than employing heavily armed security guards to protect their over 12,000 cell sites outside the metropolises, many of which are in remote areas.
Buried deep inside the paper, behind the usual thicket of articles about share prices and companies and pensions, the page was introduced to readers a little euphemistically, as “a guide to good living”.
A recent addition to the landscape has been the erection of several large stone columns on main roads into the city welcoming drivers, euphemistically, to "the walled city".
During the mid-1970s, more pornographic theatres, euphemistically called "adult cinemas", were established, and the legal production of hardcore pornographic films began.
From this verb come amans—a lover, amator, "professional lover," often with the accessory notion of lechery—and amica, "girlfriend" in the English sense, often being applied euphemistically to a prostitute.
It is commonly stated that if they considered it "puny and deformed", the baby was thrown into a chasm on Mount Taygetos known euphemistically as the Apothetae (Gr., ἀποθέται, "Deposits").
The rites allowed women to drink the strongest, sacrificial wine, otherwise reserved for the Roman gods and Roman men; the women euphemistically referred to it as "honey".
The term "orca" is euphemistically preferred by some to avoid the negative connotations of "killer", Olsen, Ken.