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Definition of the day : « euphemistic »
- adj polite
- The euphemistic plural disappeared at the first syllable from Blanche.
- Extract from : « The Thousandth Woman » by Ernest W. Hornung
- Rakshas means protector, and is, probably, an euphemistic term.
- Extract from : « Indian Fairy Tales » by Anonymous
- They give it euphemistic and deceitful names—auburn, bronze, Titian.
- Extract from : « Damn! » by Henry Louis Mencken
- We may note here the euphemistic tendency to call powerful spirits by propitiatory names.
- Extract from : « The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' » by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
- I do not think this is a euphemistic way of saying he had a good opinion of himself.
- Extract from : « Wagner as I Knew Him » by Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger
- Their retreat, said Reuter, in a euphemistic message from Rome, was "attended by some loss."
- Extract from : « The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 » by Henry Baerlein
- It is not quite certain that it may not have been through some euphemistic process that Fire-worship arose in Persia.
- Extract from : « Demonology and Devil-lore » by Moncure Daniel Conway
- (Compare Matthew 5:21 f.) The euphemistic phrase of James is emphatic by its very mildness.
- Extract from : « Studies in the Epistle of James » by A. T. Robertson
- Each of these phrases is the euphemistic equivalent of jao, that is, 'go away, (and stay there).'
- Extract from : « Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses » by John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)
- But this is the usual attitude of the folk towards the "Good People," as indeed their euphemistic name really implies.
- Extract from : « More English Fairy Tales » by Various