Definition of Euphemized

1. Verb. (past of euphemize) ¹

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Definition of Euphemized

1. euphemize [v] - See also: euphemize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemized

euphausids
euphausiid
euphausiids
euphemise
euphemised
euphemises
euphemising
euphemism
euphemisms
euphemist
euphemistic
euphemistical
euphemistically
euphemists
euphemize
euphemized (current term)
euphemizer
euphemizers
euphemizes
euphemizing
euphenic
euphenics
euphist
euphists
euphobia
euphobias
euphon
euphonia
euphonias
euphonic

Literary usage of Euphemized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"... amor,” by any word, however euphemized, that would indicate stupidity. The “ pater durus “ of Ovid (Met. xiv. ..."

2. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl van Doren (1922)
"While it is true that Mr. Dreiser's plain- speaking on a variety of topics euphemized by earlier American realists has about it some look of conscious ..."

3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... speech of Luther in the writings of St. Paul, he has but to read the Greek of certain passages in the Epistles which our translations have euphemized. ..."

4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"In American political slang, " to wave the bloody shirt," sometimes euphemized into "the ensanguined garment," means to keep up the sectional issues of the ..."

5. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1849)
"... taka (tJ] f*}' dividing the assessed productivity, that is, not the acreage), and the price was euphemized as return-favor (rei, jjj§). ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1876)
"... and their sale on the other, form, naturally enough, occasions for the exercise of a good deal of what may be euphemized as commercial diplomacy. ..."

7. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... as to refuse to eat except in clothes specially reserved for that purpose, or still wet from the bath. The very name of Dom is usually euphemized into ..."

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