Would you and your compatriots kindly stop trying to euphemize the issue?. From Wordnik.com. [David Brooks Admits Defeat, For Now - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
When we euphemize, we generalize, we profile, we stereotype, and we assume that all of "them" are one. From Wordnik.com. [euphemasia] Reference
Usually they euphemize it to death with “mendacity”, “mislead”, “not forthright”…yada, yada. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Dubious WTF Bonus Edition] Reference
With advertising down and with cost-cutting, we're all facing what financial types euphemize as "downward pressure.". From Wordnik.com. [Hard-Times Hollywood] Reference
The comparison is poor; Derbyshire's political wackiness caused him to euphemize the guy -- but give D. credit for good literary taste. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DEPLORABLE WORDS.] Reference
Also, to euphemize or excuse people's behavior is to take away their dignity, because people have the right as human beings to be held responsible for their actions. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Stewart vs. Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage] Reference
I called her ` imperious and regal 'in the paper, trying to euphemize what could have been more aptly described as ` emotionally overwrought' or ` out-and-out unbalanced. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Posthumous 'Soul of Nina Simone'] Reference
When Italians want to euphemize it they say "vaffan ..." (which would be roughly equivalent to the quoted "up yours", in the sense that it studiously avoids the hardest word). From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Justice Scalia and the Quest for Original Meaning] Reference
Or, as it was put by a 15-year-old "visiting with friends" outside a New York-area Dunkin 'Donuts, which is I guess how the papers now euphemize "cutting class": "That's so messed up.". From Wordnik.com. [Bill Barol: Gimme a Dozen Glazed, Six Eclairs and a Low-Interest Loan for $1.3 Million] Reference
Abortion proponents hate the term partial-birth abortion because it accurately and understandably describes that which they would rather euphemize as a form of "choice" or obscure with technical terminology. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
On Sunday I considered the curious spectacle of Senator Charles Schumer of New York talking tough about illegal immigration, and even denouncing MSM efforts to euphemize it: Schumer makes Nice: Meaning What?. From Wordnik.com. [Steinlight shines on Schumer] Reference
Middle management will euphemize poor results, failures, screw-ups when talking to upper management so that they don't look bad, but then the leaders have incomplete (bad) information and the company can't make good decisions. From Wordnik.com. [euphemasia] Reference
If it be birds that ultimately euphemize human death and decomposition in Silas' hands, it's for no other reason than that our fear of death, a fear necessary to life, overrides even our fascination with the death of our own kind, the deaths of the animals nearest to us in the evolutionary chain, and so on down the line. From Wordnik.com. [G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas] Reference
Maybe if we stopped invading the countries of the people we've made our enemies; stopped propping up corrupt election thieves we euphemize as "governments"; and maybe if we started asking our allies to adhere to international law, we wouldn't have to try to anticipate and eradicate every possible threat against our airliners and cities. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Tullis: Terrorists to US: "Touch My Junk and I'll Have You Arrested"] Reference
Nice way to euphemize what your'e up to there, Gingi. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Grannie used to say she was going out to the euphemism to euphemize. From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
Weapons engineers have tried to euphemize and deromanticize the terminology: death rays are called. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
Unfortunately, euphemisms are often worse than the actual literal description they're trying to euphemize. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
The fears stemmed from the browning of the american southwest that Lou Dobbs and others politely euphemize as "Illegal immigration.". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
(Or would Americans just think of Republicans vs Democrats in Congress?) #17: Try 'dysphemism, dysphemistic' in analogy with 'to euphemize'. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Yonghi Yang wields a shaky camera to deliver some truly ugly (visually, and occasionally emotionally) confrontational conversations with her Korean father - it's what programmers like to euphemize as "raw.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Tom Noir slashes his broken bottle into Vince’s… Eh, why euphemize?. From Wordnik.com. [Black Summer #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
Although we like to euphemize it as a “dancer’s foot,” it looks like a peasant foot. From Wordnik.com. [Ugh! Too Many Toes! Note to New Yorkers: Please Cover Your Feet] Reference
"classical," "understated" - are code words that euphemize basic, uncreative and stale filmmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories] Reference
Well, I guess it’s catchier than “docking” … you guys sure do like to euphemize your little tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces] Reference
But this would be to euphemize his true boyhood situation, which was much more like that of a serf or a domestic animal than of Gray’s lowly but sturdy peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln’s Emancipation] Reference
They will euphemize it. From Wordnik.com. [Carla Garapedian: Do the Right Thing, President Obama] Reference
Why dance around and euphemize?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Iraqis Overwhelmingly Demand U.S. Troops Withdraw Within One Year] Reference
Why euphemize?. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping the Riff-Raff Out of Heaven] Reference
euphemize.net 7 July, 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Explosions in London — Climb to the Stars] Reference
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