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Перевод: euphemistic

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эвфемистический

Тезаурус:

1. Deirdre Bair did not have access to these letters at the time of writing, though the euphemistic terms she uses to describe de Beauvoir's relationships anticipate this recent confirmation.
2. That this is still a source of embarrassment can be seen from the New English Bible, where Simon is introduced, with euphemistic caution, as "Simon the Patriot".
3. In the past, reasons for changing clubs have been couched in euphemistic terms, such as the need for a fresh challenge.
4. ONCE YOU'VE got over the severe attack of "Ooer" s which this band's rather indecent euphemistic name inevitably provokes, Joni's Butterfly reveal themselves (sorry) as perfectly innocent pop fun for all the family, with a lyrical undercurrent of sex, drugs, avarice and Satanic goat-molesting.
5. It goes without saying that the TD must hold regular surgeries, or in the euphemistic Irish expression hear confessions which will of course turn out to be requests for assistance.
6. Euphemistic references to police aggression are also apparent in the ITN account, as in "it could turn nasty, and it did", where the agent and object of the violence (i.e. who did what to whom) remain unspecified.
7. That earthy smell, though keenly sensed, is euphemistic.
8. Because of such answers and their euphemistic vocabulary doubt is called everything but doubt, and the basic dilemma is not brought into the open.
9. There has long been a tradition of separating these "special" clinics from the rest of the hospital, and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as "Martha and Luke" clinic, James Pringle House, or "Lydia" clinic.
10. The author makes it seem as if in this euphemistic world, tradesmen, dealers - men of the flesh - have refined themselves out of existence, and have imparted their qualities to the shop itself, its furniture and fittings, in a general ambience of discretion.
11. Mrs Scutt, being an old hospital bird, had no difficulty in translating Robins' euphemistic message, or in placing Charlie, though she had not met him before.
12. It was impossible to be euphemistic about the basic facts of nature when one lived on a stud farm, Harry told himself as he watched Cora-Beth rise from the swing seat where they were sitting and walk across the veranda into the house to fetch a fresh jug of lemonade.
13. There is no clear boundary, for instance, between a metaphorical meaning which is an institutionalized part of language, such as to steal a kiss, and one which is not, such as a euphemistic shingle John Updike).