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euphemism (/ˈjuːfəmɪzəm/ YOO-fə-miz-əm) is an
innocuous word or
expression used in
place of one that is
deemed offensive or
suggests something unpleasant...
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death in
alphabetical order.
While some of them are slang,
others euphemize the
unpleasantness of the subject, or are used in
formal contexts. Some...
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representing the
informal school motto "I Hate This ****ing Place" and
jocularly euphemized as "I Have
Truly Found Paradise", "Institute Has The
Finest Professors"...
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first attested in
Pindar (c. 475 BC), was
considered an ill omen and was
euphemized to its opposite, Εὔξεινος Πόντος Eúxeinos Póntos (Hospitable Sea), also...
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Scripted reality (sometimes also
euphemized as
structured reality or
constructed reality) in
television and
entertainment is a
subgenre of
reality television...
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Because of its
generally being considered a vulgarity, the word is
often euphemized as schmoe,
which was the
source of Al Capp's
cartoon strip creature the...
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Histoires ou
contes du
temps p****é.
Andrew Lang
included it,
somewhat euphemized, in The Grey
Fairy Book. It is
classed among folktales of Aarne-Thompson...
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alcohol of her
ethnic identity as a Valkyrie; and the Grandmaster's
euphemizing of "slaves" as "prisoners with jobs". A
third sequel titled Thor: Love...
- 1 and SPIB. The
gonads of both male and
female sea urchins,
sometimes euphemized as sea
urchin "roe" or "corals", are
culinary delicacies in many parts...
- suppose." In the next line he wrote, "The dear [i.e., "the dear Lord",
euphemized] only
knows what will next
prove a rose." This
referred to
shifting botanical...
