Crossword-Solution: EUPHEMISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Euphemistic | a. | Alt. of Euphemistical |
We have 35 clues for the answer “EUPHEMISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one | 1 answer |
| Like tactful language, often | 1 answer |
| imitated | 39 answers |
| Simulated | 40 answers |
| histrionic | 46 answers |
| falsified | 47 answers |
| Theatrical | 47 answers |
| Melodramatic | 48 answers |
| Pretended | 49 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| Feigned | 52 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
| Polite | 56 answers |
| Thespian | 57 answers |
| Eloquent | 58 answers |
| Showy | 58 answers |
| Dramatic. | 59 answers |
| arty | 60 answers |
| Insincere | 61 answers |
| perfidious | 61 answers |
| inflated | 61 answers |
| Worldly | 64 answers |
| Ostentatious | 65 answers |
| Suave | 65 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| influenced | 70 answers |
| Assumed | 73 answers |
| Unnatural | 77 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
| Pompous ___ | 80 answers |
| Affected | 80 answers |
| Devious | 82 answers |
| deceitful | 85 answers |
| Cunning | 91 answers |
| False ___ | 91 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
LTEOCRE
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 EUPHEMISTIC (5)
Quick, Evelina, the cordial!” By this euphemistic name the sisters designated a bottle of cherry brandy, the last of a dozen inherited from their grandmother, which they kept locked in their cupboard against such emergencies.
Why should the natural development of the affections be dwarfed and restricted because a man is a priest?” “And, bye the bye,” she added, “are you an Anglican?” Graham was on the verge of hesitating inquiries about the status of a “subsidiary wife,” apparently an euphemistic phrase, when Lincoln’s return broke off this very suggestive and interesting conversation.
Reserving for another place the greater questions of religion or education, we may note further, (1) the approval of the old traditional education of Greece; (2) the preparation which Plato is making for the attack on Homer and the poets; (3) the preparation which he is also making for the use of economies in the State; (4) the contemptuous and at the same time euphemistic manner in which here as below he alludes to the ‘Chronique Scandaleuse’ of the gods.
Gay girl: As applied to a young woman of light manners, this euphemistic phrase has enjoyed a wonderful vitality.
About 1644 his ancestor Klaes Martensen van Roosevelt came to New Amsterdam as a "settler"--the euphemistic name for an immigrant who came over in the steerage of a sailing ship in the seventeenth century instead of the steerage of a steamer in the nineteenth century.
Quotes with EUPHEMISTIC (3)
Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.
Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.
Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it's no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins.
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Appears in: Slate.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).