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Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.
James Nesbitt / Actor
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Spoilt
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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
Bobbie Gentry /
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I've never been a fan of euphemism.
Jo Brand / Actress
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Fans
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'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
James Nesbitt / Actor
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Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Robert A. Heinlein / Science Writer
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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark / Novelist
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"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
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Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
Jacques Attali / Economist
Government
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It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
John Green / Author
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Paul Johnson / Journalist
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Reality
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'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Andrea Dworkin / Writer
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All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
Kate Burridge / Linguist
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The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
George Carlin / Comedian
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy / Poet
Cat
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Sleep
Marriage Together People
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
Evgeny Morozov / Writer
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Clouds
Computer
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A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
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Journalism
Lying
Composite
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Lie
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The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
Brian Billick / Coach
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There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
Milos Zeman / President Of The Czech Republic
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Cowardice
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Political Correctness
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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George P. Shultz / Former United States Secretary Of State
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Capitulation
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Negotiation
Shadow
Tables
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Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
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Legacy
People
Reform
Self
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Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
Bret Stephens / Journalist
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Honor
Resignation
Became
Public
Fired
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Personal
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Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
Alan Dershowitz / Lawyer
Civilians
Collateral
Damage
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Innocent
Terrorism
Warfare
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch / Writer
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Games
Losing
True Meaning
Trying
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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Nigel Rees / Writer
Jobs
Doe
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Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
Steve Eisman /
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For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
Envy
Euphemism
Revolution
Uprising
Coup
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I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.
Joe R. Lansdale / Author
Broke
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Family People Never
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I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.
Deborah Tannen / Professor
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Women Believe I Believe
Women Believe Woman
Lady
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In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Considering
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Fantasy
Ironic
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In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Annie Jacobsen /
Documents
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Activities
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Classified
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Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
Dennis Prager / Radio Host
Animosity
Black
Election
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Impact
Left Wing
Wings
Begins
Blacks
Construct
Racial
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Toward
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Whites
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
J. D. Salinger / Writer
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Heard
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The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
Richard Corliss / Editor
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Ironic
Sarcasm
Broad
Current
Definition
Exact
Hardly
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick / Novelist
Assertion
Courtesy
Empty
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Lasting
Military
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Younger Generation
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