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Euphemism in sentence

37 examples of Euphemism in a sentence

Complications is a medical euphemism for pneumonia and death.
"Xia Gang" is a Chinese euphemism for "laid off".
I suspect that's possibly a euphemism for C student who spent a lot of time in his room?
It's just a euphemism for killing, right?
Well, we use that great euphemism, "trial and error," which is exposed to be meaningless.
It has been described as 'art-house', this can only be a euphemism for dull, dreadful and, quite frankly, artless.
Jake Gyllenhaal guested on Conan O'Brien to promote the movie and explained that 'Rendition' was a euphemism for obtaining information via torture.
"Hollywood North" is an euphemism from the movie industry as they went to Canada to make movies because of tax breaks and cheaper costs in a civilized city like Toronto, in this case, later in Vancouver.
The plot was a no brainer which is blown way beyond any common sense with characters who are so stupid they do things like have a "fast of speech" which seemed like a euphemism for "not talking because I'm upset" which, of course, would create relationship problems and does which is why it's factored into this stupid film.
The story might not be completely developed (euphemism) but the Russian mobsters and GI Joes scenes are gutbustingly funny.
I didn't know that scariest was a euphemism for crappiest.
Is “European solidarity” a euphemism for the transfer union that Germany opposes, or for massive bailouts by the European Central Bank?
The US-led public-relations blitzkrieg of euphemism has already begun, with US Assistant Trade Representative Wendy Cutler describing the latest PTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as a “high standard” agreement.
Putin’s main objectives now are the removal of Ukraine’s blockade of Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria and Ukrainian “federalization” (a euphemism for the Kremlin’s back-door strategy to gain control over the country’s eastern and southern regions).
Skeptics who treat the term “public diplomacy” as a mere euphemism for propaganda miss the point.
A key pillar of their prevention strategy is to scale back “global imbalances,” a euphemism for the huge US trade deficit and the corresponding trade surpluses elsewhere, not least China.
Internally, nationalism has been gaining strength in nearly all EU member states; externally, Russia is playing great-power politics and pushing for a “Eurasian Union” – a euphemism for renewed Russian dominance over Eastern Europe – as an alternative to the EU.
The dreadful result was the indiscriminate denial of civil rights and the principles of democracy, and the rise of what today’s leaders call “socialism with Chinese characteristics” – a bitter euphemism for unchecked Party and government power entwined with commercial interests.
These policies comprised the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s, when developing countries were forced to cut social programs, privatize public services, deregulate industries, eliminate trade protection, and make their labor markets more “flexible” (a euphemism for making it easier to fire workers).
In his address to the Federal Assembly, Putin positioned himself as a defender of conservative values against “tolerance, neutered and barren” (a euphemism for gay rights) and a champion of morality and traditional family values.
He repeatedly contrasts the ECB’s rigor and orthodoxy with the flexibility – a euphemism for willingness to print money – of the British and American central banks.
Skeptics who treat “public diplomacy” as a euphemism for broadcasting government propaganda miss the point.
With no political overlord to settle or adjudicate bureaucratic disputes, decisions could be made only by "consensus," which was mostly a euphemism for paralysis.
“Innovative” must not become a euphemism for non-transparent, ineffective, or unsound.
As citizens of a region that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation, we know all too well the danger of euphemism.
He has vowed to lower the corporate tax rate from 33.5% to 25%, cut 120,000 civil service jobs, keep the government deficit below the EU limit of 3% of GDP, and increase labor-market flexibility (a euphemism for making it easier for firms to fire workers).
Netanyahu’s own insistence on “ironclad” security arrangements is a euphemism for an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley – and no return to the “Auschwitz borders” of 1967.
Instead, the EU talks of a “code of conduct” (which probably does not mean very much, but sounds nice) and “free trade” (another charming euphemism for arms exports to dictatorships.
Reprofiling is a euphemism for debt restructuring, which allows countries to borrow from existing creditors for longer periods and at lower interest rates than they would be able to do on the open market.
Across Europe, calls for “affordable energy” are fast becoming a euphemism for increased fossil-fuel subsidies and a rollback of commitments on green energy.