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 Translation for 'euphemism' from English to Czech
NOUN   a euphemism | euphemisms
euphemism {noun}eufemismus {m}
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Translation for 'euphemism' from English to Czech

euphemism {noun}
eufemismus {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • , CIA personnel employed so-called "Enhanced interrogation techniques", a euphemism for torture.
  • The word "păsărică" (little bird) is a euphemism for "pizdă".
  • "Maohou monkey" is a euphemism for a little child in Mandarin.
  • The same euphemism is used in Petronius of relieving oneself of gas (see below).
  • Pass away is a euphemism for die.

  • Gangland killing is a euphemism for a murder apparently connected to organized crime.
  • In such contexts, ethnonyms are susceptible to the phenomenon of the euphemism treadmill.
  • The treaty has proven to be controversial largely because it distinguishes between "newly independent states" (a euphemism for former colonies) and "cases of separation of parts of a state" (a euphemism for all other new states).
  • "Roget's Thesaurus" places Grundyism under prudery, linked most closely to euphemism.
  • At 1 Samuel 24:3, The Living Bible has "Saul went into the cave to go to the bathroom", using a contemporary North American euphemism where the original Hebrew (also a euphemism) literally translates as "to cover his feet".

  • Another place is a euphemism used in many bicameral parliaments using the Westminster system.
  • The phrase was frequently used as a euphemism when delicacy forbade direct reference to prostitution.
  • It has been remarked that nudging is also a euphemism for psychological manipulation as practiced in social engineering.
  • The term "inner city" has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area.
  • An executive home is a marketing euphemism for a moderately large and well-appointed house.

  • Aunt Flo is a popular euphemism referring to the menstrual cycle.
  • Better half is a euphemism for one's spouse in marriage.
  • as one is effectively downgrading the matter concerned to its former lower status, and the euphemism becomes dominant, due to a wish not to offend; see euphemism treadmill.
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