Definition
An inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
Examples
Shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting
Other users have misspelled euphemism as:
| euphemisn | 44.44% |
| eufemisme | 11.11% |
| other | 44.45% |
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What's the internet saying about euphemism?
@VinHampton: @AStudyInPunk "Often seen in the company of..." Euphemism. Yes, the rumour was you two were together.
@iamsamnorman: @CallumOrr I'd be well up for petting a goat (not a euphemism). I'm scared of chickens though.
@thelostweekend: @joelneill cleaning the house? That's a euphemism if I ever heard one. Stay safe.
@moose_bigelow: @HammerDialectic My favorite euphemism of war. "I have some bad news and good news. Jim is dead but it was friendly fire! Right neighborly"
@apyxinde: (2/2) Me, thinking: Who keeps shit in a car? Is this an euphemism, I hope? Stashed drugs, maybe? Please not literal *shit* in the car.
@FairTaxNancy: @EricShapiro3 You've confused the parties. GOP calls it targeting (which it is), Dems, progressives call it un-PC (PC euphemism).
@furiousgerbil: @Kitty_Pickle You're cooking a pig's 'chap'? Is that a euphemism?
@PatrickMars96: RT @ashens: Don't want things being "more personal". I've sat in on enough corporate meetings to know that's a euphemism for "creepy privacy invasion"
@derfshaya: RT @ashens: Don't want things being "more personal". I've sat in on enough corporate meetings to know that's a euphemism for "creepy privacy invasion"
@worklesshard: Telegraph is Buzzfeed for the 19th century: http://t.co/0LlkWFeAtm #colourful #euphemism #fordickish
@danielleiat: no part of that was a euphemism
@davidmead: @BravoAndy Is that a euphemism? Should I be worried? ;-)
@liz_fenwick: @TDGRIGGS1 hope that's not a euphemism... @PetaNightingale @LAWsomeTweets @TracyBBloom
@russianpeasant: QUOTE The C-J understands the range between irony and Orwellian euphemism in naming bills/laws-- but only when... http://t.co/AC5CinLxIz
@KrisMCFCGoodwin: “@tancredipalmeri: Allegri now arrived at the event entering from a back door” euphemism?
@rockxcandy: @talkativepeach is banana a euphemism?
@laurenobern: I REALISED MY TWEET ABOUT THE CARPET MAN SOUNDED LIKE A EUPHEMISM SO I HASTILY DELETED IT
@DKtheAcronym: @g_mo_skee ayee brodi if you got a minute, check out me and Kriss Vector's new EP https://t.co/RvTQI2keMi
@Hydrictis: @Soy_Leche that better not be a euphemism
@KirstyNHW: @KatieeeRussell Is this a euphemism?
