In a sentence
Six example sentences with euphemism, each labelled with its topic.
Every layoff memo called it a restructuring, a euphemism so worn that employees now hear the real meaning immediately.
Business
Calling the tax increase a revenue adjustment is a euphemism nobody in the press gallery bothered to repeat.
Politics
Doctors once wrote a long illness on certificates as a euphemism, sparing families a diagnosis the neighbors would gossip about.
Medicine
Central bankers call a recession a period of negative growth, a euphemism that fools nobody who has lost a job.
Economics
Austen's characters speak in euphemism, so a woman who has gone to the country has often lost her fortune.
Literature
Victorian newspapers preferred euphemism, reporting that a banker had retired to the country when he had in fact gone bankrupt.
History
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