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euphemistic

adj.

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  • 英英释义

1. ADJ-GRADED 委婉的 Euphemistic language uses polite, pleasant, or neutral words and expressions to refer to things which people may find unpleasant, upsetting, or embarrassing to talk about, for example sex, the human body, or death. 
  • ...a euphemistic way of saying that someone has been lying.

    说某人一直在撒谎的委婉说法

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  • ...political prisons, called euphemistically 're-education camps'.

    被委婉称作“再教育营”的政治监狱

Adjective

1. of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology;

  • "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"