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It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

John Green
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Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Bergen Evans
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
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Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
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Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic
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Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.

James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station
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Nature tells the truth as it is

it has no euphemism
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

Patrick Cockburn
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Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

Kevin Smith
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy
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