What's the difference between euphemistic and euphemistical?
Euphemistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Euphemistical
Example Sentences:
(1) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(2) Then there’s that thing euphemistically called ‘shrinkage’ – when money goes missing.
(3) They prop up and artificially inflate profit margins (or “surpluses” as they are euphemistically called in the public sector).
(4) What similarities exist concern the two countries’ euphemistic description of their involvement: Russia is claiming an operation against the Islamic State while actually attacking enemies of client Bashar al-Assad, whereas the US is bombing Isis in Syria while treating the country as peripheral to a central conflict in neighboring Iraq.
(5) Chicken wing This euphemistically named move is classified broadly by the National Rugby League as dangerous contact in which players try to bend or twist limbs in such a way that causes an “unacceptable risk of injury”.
(6) Cut taxes at the top and deregulate business (euphemistically called "cutting red tape") so that the "wealth creators" have greater incentives to invest and generate growth; and make hiring and firing easier.
(7) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
(8) Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, said on Monday there was no clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called "comfort women".
(9) However, that assumption is, as the report states euphemistically, "high compared with recent history".
(10) But perhaps once we are lulled into an imaginative world where a "baby" lamb or the "baby" queen scallop can be "resting" (in the scallop's case, resting itself on another baby, this time a "baby gem", since vegetables too – baby carrots, baby greens – can share in the general babyhood of all nice things, and participate in tottering towers of babies all stacked up for our gastric enjoyment), we are cocooned in such a euphemistic dream that the incipient act of putting these "baby" organisms into our mouths doesn't register as the horrific dissonance it otherwise might.
(11) "You are being euphemistic when you say lack of accountability.
(12) The two instances prompt the question: who does Britain befriend in its quest for what are euphemistically called “trade” and “investment”?
(13) One libel settlement, or even a robust defence of a hopeless case, would need several hundred subscribers to traverse your paywall or euphemistic "value gate" for a year before it is paid for.
(14) On a base level, when we buy a £10 pair of trousers, surely we know what we are buying into: cheap clothes, sometimes euphemistically called "affordable fashion" or "fast fashion" are almost always produced on the backs of exploitation, many of them women, and sometimes children.
(15) The ministry of home affairs has announced that legislation on sexual harassment – known euphemistically in India as "eve-teasing" – will be tightened.
(16) "We did not realise our power, but instead relied on donors, that we euphemistically called partners."
(17) She has arrived lugging a gym bag, hair wet from what she describes as a "sleepover" at a friend's house, and she is not being euphemistic.
(18) The lack of safe public transport in Indian cities is one major factor with "eve teasing", as sexual harassment is euphemistically known, endemic on overcrowded buses.
(19) Thévenoud, who was appointed secretary of state for foreign trade in the Socialist government reshuffle at the end of August, was fired just nine days later after it was discovered he had what was euphemistically described as "problems of conformity with his taxes".
(20) When a manager has what is euphemistically described as a selection headache it is fascinating to wonder what the impulses are behind a key decision.
Euphemistical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(2) Then there’s that thing euphemistically called ‘shrinkage’ – when money goes missing.
(3) They prop up and artificially inflate profit margins (or “surpluses” as they are euphemistically called in the public sector).
(4) What similarities exist concern the two countries’ euphemistic description of their involvement: Russia is claiming an operation against the Islamic State while actually attacking enemies of client Bashar al-Assad, whereas the US is bombing Isis in Syria while treating the country as peripheral to a central conflict in neighboring Iraq.
(5) Chicken wing This euphemistically named move is classified broadly by the National Rugby League as dangerous contact in which players try to bend or twist limbs in such a way that causes an “unacceptable risk of injury”.
(6) Cut taxes at the top and deregulate business (euphemistically called "cutting red tape") so that the "wealth creators" have greater incentives to invest and generate growth; and make hiring and firing easier.
(7) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
(8) Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, said on Monday there was no clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called "comfort women".
(9) However, that assumption is, as the report states euphemistically, "high compared with recent history".
(10) But perhaps once we are lulled into an imaginative world where a "baby" lamb or the "baby" queen scallop can be "resting" (in the scallop's case, resting itself on another baby, this time a "baby gem", since vegetables too – baby carrots, baby greens – can share in the general babyhood of all nice things, and participate in tottering towers of babies all stacked up for our gastric enjoyment), we are cocooned in such a euphemistic dream that the incipient act of putting these "baby" organisms into our mouths doesn't register as the horrific dissonance it otherwise might.
(11) "You are being euphemistic when you say lack of accountability.
(12) The two instances prompt the question: who does Britain befriend in its quest for what are euphemistically called “trade” and “investment”?
(13) One libel settlement, or even a robust defence of a hopeless case, would need several hundred subscribers to traverse your paywall or euphemistic "value gate" for a year before it is paid for.
(14) On a base level, when we buy a £10 pair of trousers, surely we know what we are buying into: cheap clothes, sometimes euphemistically called "affordable fashion" or "fast fashion" are almost always produced on the backs of exploitation, many of them women, and sometimes children.
(15) The ministry of home affairs has announced that legislation on sexual harassment – known euphemistically in India as "eve-teasing" – will be tightened.
(16) "We did not realise our power, but instead relied on donors, that we euphemistically called partners."
(17) She has arrived lugging a gym bag, hair wet from what she describes as a "sleepover" at a friend's house, and she is not being euphemistic.
(18) The lack of safe public transport in Indian cities is one major factor with "eve teasing", as sexual harassment is euphemistically known, endemic on overcrowded buses.
(19) Thévenoud, who was appointed secretary of state for foreign trade in the Socialist government reshuffle at the end of August, was fired just nine days later after it was discovered he had what was euphemistically described as "problems of conformity with his taxes".
(20) When a manager has what is euphemistically described as a selection headache it is fascinating to wonder what the impulses are behind a key decision.