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Definition of Euphemised
1. euphemise [v] - See also: euphemise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemised
Literary usage of Euphemised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"Besides, all allusions to so prevalent a practice as " cattle-lifting " were
always euphemised in the mouth of a Highlander. ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Parish Register Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"The fact, again, that some of our English dragons, like those of Sockburn or
Wantley, where the dragon has been euphemised into a roguish attorney, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1896)
"... off from the Continent by that “streak of silver sea” which French journalism
now presents to the world in the euphemised version “le ruban d'argent. ..."
4. English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten (1890)
"174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in Folk-Lore, i. 207-8.
I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession. ..."
5. Garrick and His Circle by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons (1906)
"... Carrington (a weak creature, now the Reverend, who, not long afterwards, died
of drink—'too careless of his constitution' as people euphemised it then) ..."
6. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"In 1880 the only survival was Naked Boy Court, on the north side of Ludgate Hill,
and that was euphemised into Boy Court. Nando's, a coffee-house in FLEET ..."
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