A sentence can be a euphemism if it expresses something that might be considered 'unpleasant' in a way that might be considered 'more pleasant'. Another way of describing this is to say that a euphemism is a way of avoiding telling the truth.
For example:
'My brother was very tired and emotional when he came home last night.' (This means that he was drunk.)
'Mary has a tendency to speak her mind.' (She is tactless.)
'Peter told me that his father had passed on.' (He had died.)
The euphemism, casualties is used to replace the word deaths.
The word "john" is a euphemism, or substitute, for the word "toilet."
The hippo was a euphemism for the loud lion a few miles away.
The individual tends to exercise the truth creatively.
A euphemism is a figure of speech. You use a euphemism when you don't want to use the actual name or word for something.Instead of saying that she died, he used a euphemism.
Her mother had passed away due to her sickness. (In this sentence, "passed away" is a euphemism for died.)
The father talked with euphemism of how the child's mother had passed away.
One of the most common uses for a euphemism is to advise someone of the death of a loved one.
Chance is thus neatly collapsed into a euphemism for ignorance, or lack of sufficient observation.
Here are some sentences.That is a euphemism.Cowboys often used a euphemism instead of the actual term.
He was released yesterday at the funeral.
The word 'euphemism' is a noun, a word for a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt, unpleasant or embarrassing.A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:A euphemism can't minimize the fact that he is dead. (subject of the sentence)Caution, the word love can be a euphemism for ownership and control. (direct object of the verb 'can be')