Euphemistic Synonyms and Antonyms

Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. inoffensive
  2. polite
  3. extenuative
  4. metaphorical
  5. mild
  6. euphemious
  7. softened
  8. indirect
  9. vague
  10. figurative
  11. affected
  12. delicate
Antonyms:
  1. dysphemistic

Words Related to Euphemistic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. refined
  2. pejorative
  3. perjorative
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Euphemistic Sentence Examples

  • It has always been politic for powerful states to facilitate and hide schemes of aggrandizement under euphemistic expressions; to cloak subjection or dependence by describing it in words inoffensive or strictly applicable to other relations.

  • The new viceroy, who might have expected a tranquil time after the energetic reforms of his predecessor, soon found himself Lord face to face with the most serious troubles, euphemistic ally called the "unrest," that British rule has had to encounter in India since the Mutiny.

  • The tithes were originally based on one-tenth of the agricultural produce of the country, but this proportion was gradually raised under the euphemistic pretence of " public instruction," but really, under financial pressure, to 12% and again in 1900 for military " equipments " (Tejhizat-i-'Askeriyeh) by a further 2% to 122%.

  • It is said that on this occasion they were first called Eumenides ("the kindly"), a euphemistic variant of their real name.

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