a less direct word used to refer to something unpleasant or embarrassing, often so as to avoid offence.
it was a euphemism for ignorance.
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Euthenics is the applied science of improving environmental health conditions, such as education, sanitation, nutrition, and physical and mental well being. This sounds similar to eugenics, but eugenics refers to improving the human gene pool, while euthenics refers to improving human environmental conditions.
Many people wrongly label the global depopulation movement as eugenics, but in reality it is euthenics, because the intent is to produce a better environment not a better gene pool.
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So, how do we go from 'shell-shock' to 'battle-fatigue', from 'old dude' to 'senior citizen', from 'rape victim' to 'unconsenting intimacy participant'? Because our culture thrives on caustic euphemism: The dumbed-down, homogenized, neutralized language of the mindless majority who want it that way...
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by sciencefriday April 1, 2010
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1. A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too truthful.
2. A lie
3. A word used by politician when they don't know what "euphenism " means or how to pronounce it.
1. A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too truthful.
2. A lie
3. A word used by politician when they don't know what "euphenism " means or how to pronounce it.
From Donald Trump speech at Carrier
'And then they played my statement, and I said, 'Carrier will never leave.' But that was a euphenism. I was talking about Carrier like all other companies from here on in because they made the decision a year and a half ago. "
'And then they played my statement, and I said, 'Carrier will never leave.' But that was a euphenism. I was talking about Carrier like all other companies from here on in because they made the decision a year and a half ago. "
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