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euphemism

noun as in nice way of saying something

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In recent days Wang Hung-wei, a prominent lawmaker from the opposition Kuomintang party, criticised Zero Day Attack as "selling dried mangoes", a Taiwanese euphemism that means stoking unnecessary fear about the destruction of one's country.

From BBC

“So it feels like it’s a euphemism for enforcement actions.”

Since her arrest, although that word seems like a euphemism, she has reportedly been held in ICE detention centers in four different states.

From Salon

There was a criminal element, of course, but it was mostly blue-collar workers and street vendors who took it to endure tiring shifts, using the euphemism pampagilas or “performance-enhancer.”

From Salon

Sometimes, he uses euphemisms like "a little disturbance" or a "period of transition" to describe the pain he's inflicting on Americans, but he insists that the country will be "rich" because of it.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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