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All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
Kate Burridge
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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark
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The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
George Carlin
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A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
J. D. Salinger
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The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
Brian Billick
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Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
Jacques Attali
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I've never been a fan of euphemism.
Jo Brand
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It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
John Green
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"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
Ron Perlman