Crossword-Solution: EUPHEMISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Euphemism | n. | A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “EUPHEMISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "The Green Mile," literarily | 1 answer |
| trope | 1 answer |
| Softener of a kind | 1 answer |
| MILD expression in place of a blunt one | 1 answer |
| Less explicit term | 1 answer |
| It's a nice way to say something | 1 answer |
| Inoffensive and indirect expression standing in for an offensive one | 1 answer |
| Heck or darn, e.g. | 1 answer |
| "Bought the farm" or "bit the dust," for example | 1 answer |
| "Blankety-blank," for example | 1 answer |
| DOUBLESPEAK | 3 answers |
| Egad, e.g. | 3 answers |
| Polite term | 3 answers |
| euphuism | 4 answers |
| substitution | 17 answers |
| voice of the charmer | 18 answers |
| Figure of speech | 23 answers |
| tongue in cheek | 41 answers |
| figure | 66 answers |
| Terms | 67 answers |
| Affectation | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
RTLECOE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with EUPHEMISM (5)
Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,--I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly? Very true, he replied.
Seeing him thus quadrupedal in the grass, the priest raised his eyebrows rather sadly; and for the first time guessed that “fancies things” might be an euphemism.
Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly? Very true, he replied.
You didn't-" "I boxed and fenced--some." "When did you last box?" "Not since; but I was considered an excellent judge of time and distance, only I was--er-" "Go on." "Considered desultory." "Lazy, you mean." "I always imagined it was an euphemism." "My father, sir, your grandfather, old Isaac Bellew, killed a man with a blow of his fist when he was sixty-nine years old." "The man?" "No, your--you graceless scamp! But you'll never kill a mosquito at sixty-nine." "The times have changed, oh, my avuncular.
Pluto is connected with ploutos, because wealth comes out of the earth; or the word may be a euphemism for Hades, which is usually derived apo tou aeidous, because the God is concerned with the invisible.
Quotes with EUPHEMISM (3)
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art — a euphemism — tamed wilderness.
Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”“No."“Well, how about that I needed to see you.”“Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?” One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one”“Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it. “Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?
Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?''Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.''Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ''Freaky, you say?''Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).