- A
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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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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representing the
informal school motto "I Hate This ****ing Place" and
jocularly euphemized as "I Have
Truly Found Paradise", "Institute Has The
Finest Professors"...
- The
formation of such a "White homeland" also
involves the expulsion,
euphemized as the "repatriation", of all non-Whites from the territory. The project...
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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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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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Scripted reality (sometimes also
euphemized as
structured reality or
constructed reality) in
television and
entertainment is a
subgenre of
reality television...
- "In the 1930s and 1940s the
Zionist leadership found it
expedient to
euphemize,
using the term "transfer" or "ha'avara" – the
Hebrew euphemism for ethnic...
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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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Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsʉnakwahipʉ "Erection That Won't Go Down"
euphemized to "Buffalo Bull's Back" ) (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was...
