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euphemism

a less direct word used to refer to something unpleasant or embarrassing, often so as to avoid offence.
it was a euphemism for ignorance.
by it's d queen June 5, 2020
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euphemism

trying to make the mean things you say sound nicer by using different words
by the koz October 24, 2003
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Euthenics

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.
by sciencefriday February 22, 2010
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caustic euphemism

A substitute word or phrase that, while constructed to be socially more acceptable, drastically subtracts from the legitimate intent and purpose of the original.
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...
by YAWA August 18, 2019
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Eugenism

The ideology that humanity should evolutionarily progress through the use of eugenics.
Eugenism is the most evolutionarily valid third political alternative to the naivety of liberalism and conservatism.
by sciencefriday April 1, 2010
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euphemismic

Having properties like a euphemism, using language that can be associated to euphemisms.
I feel like the book took a more euphemismic approach to explaining the sexual misconduct the young boy had during his promiscuous appetite .
by snowjunky555 February 24, 2010
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euphenism

noun
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. "
by Breeasy December 3, 2016
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