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Definition of Euphemists
1. euphemist [n] - See also: euphemist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemists
Literary usage of Euphemists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"... efforts of mannerists and euphemists; and people are never ridiculous as long
as they are contented to remain themselves. ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... and to comment upon the important relations of the religious question to the
recent and very remarkable ' evolution,' as certain French euphemists have ..."
3. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"To turn to another phase of the presentation, we may discover such euphemists as
will, not without a genial jocosity, point out that " Othello " interpreted ..."
4. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"... and the euphemists of literature were saints to them. It is these sick- minded
folk, fallen into an art craze of mixed ignorance and cant, whom Prof. ..."
5. Eugenics and Other Evils by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"... are euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words
soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into ..."
6. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"All this forms part of what our modern euphemists characterize as the liberty of
the press. Thus it comes to pass, that the people are fed upon lies, ..."
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