`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Further, the dysphemistic way that conservatives are characterized by Bob Burnettmakes it clear that this is not a serious, evenhanded political commentary. From Wordnik.com. [What Do Liberals Believe?] Reference
It was both a humanitarian intervention (toppling one of the world's most brutal dictators) and an act of self-defense ( "the administration's grandiose rhetoric about pre-emption" is merely a dysphemistic way of saying this). From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Inhumane Intervention] Reference
Great profanated balls of execrating dysphemistic maledictory cacophemisms. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Scholar] 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
Once in a while, however, a place gets a dysphemistic name, such as the Badlands in South Dakota, or Great Dismal Swamp, which is a 1500-square-mile section of Virginia and North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1] Reference
In any event, even these criteria are abandoned later on in the book (e.g., in the chapter on "Bodily Effluvia") where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to "tend to the dysphemistic," whatever that means. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut (s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
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