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“The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.”

Book Remarkable Good Book Euphemism

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.”

Rudeness Euphemism Frankness

Book:Loitering with Intent

Source: Loitering with Intent

“To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.”

Looks Bigs Jobs Beautiful Life Is Courses Easier Size Fats Plus Offensive Euphemism Plus Size Being Fat

Author:Katie Hopkins

“I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.”

Kind Used White Folks Profession Cooks Maids Massachusetts Euphemism

Author:Malcolm X

“The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.”

Doe Ends Jobs Process Description Workplace Euphemism Dismissal

Author:Nigel Rees

“The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.”

Thinking Important Funny America Humorous Important Things Leaving Communicate Shirts Subtle Listeners Refrain Nuance Grabbing Unsaid Euphemism

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.”

Has Beens Use Bits Space Walking Moon Program Southern Snakes Star Gazing Euphemism Space Program

Author:Al Gore

“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”

People Thinking Should Said Young Secret Criticism Calm Missions Agents Mess Useless Delicate Constructive Diplomatic Euphemism Forbearance Cologne Constructive Criticism Secret Agent

Author:Quentin Crisp