(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.
Inoffensive
Definition:
(a.) Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
(a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.
(a.) Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Associated Newspapers argued that they were entirely innocuous and inoffensive images taken in public places and that the Wellers had previously chosen to open up their private family life to public gaze to a significant degree.
(2) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
(3) Microphlebography is an inoffensive examination which is easy to perform and useful in treating telangiectasia using this personal technique of micro-coagulo-surgery.
(4) He should have said: “We don’t want to be like Belgium, but the press should calm down and recognise that the Queen’s government goes on normally while we take the necessary days to consider how best to form the programme for a new government.” Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great Read more 3 As party leader, Clegg puzzled us all by ignoring the more senior members of his Commons team including Campbell, Alan Beith, Malcolm Bruce, Simon Hughes and Kennedy.
(5) For some of Facebook’s algorithmic tweaks, their goal is clear, articulated, and inoffensive: it has managed to increase the number of organ donors ; it’s managed to boost turnout at US , Indian and Brazilian elections; and, obviously, it’s managed to make a few billion dollars from advertising.
(6) They also wanted to make a show that was warm and gentle but not inoffensive and dull.
(7) Suárez has been mostly inoffensive year: no charges of racism, no gnawing on opponents' arms.
(8) All intelligence reformers have felt strongly this data collection is not an inoffensive activity,” Wyden said.
(9) The secret science bill would require the EPA to release the data it uses to devise regulations – an aim seemingly inoffensive enough, except that the EPA often relies on confidential medical records whose release could land it in court.
(10) Both wear a British approximation of a Riviera look – chinos, light blazers, inoffensive shirts and soft shoes, and are in deep discussion about how best to seduce young Italian women.
(11) In order to ensure a certain diagnosis and to avoid exploratory surgery as far as possible, the authors propose systematic needle puncture of the inververtebral disk--a technique that is simple and inoffensive to carry out in all disks below T4, and that, in a series of 18 cases, gave a success rate of 2 out of 3 (11 positive results).
(12) In sum, free speech is not intended to protect benign, uncontroversial, or inoffensive ideas.
(13) The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
(14) Even I, as an inoffensive left-leaning (and, incidentally, anti-bombing) academic historian, have been subjected to this kind of thing, in comments below the line of articles or blogs I’ve published.
(15) The movies that do get official approval and release tend to be inoffensive comedies and historical action movies catering to a youth audience.
(16) TICAs may enlarge in time and, seemingly inoffensive, may rupture and lead to death.
(17) The term "waste stabilization pond" in its simplest form is applied to a body of water, artificial or natural, employed with the intention of retaining sewage or organic waste waters until the wastes are rendered stable and inoffensive for discharge into receiving waters or on land, through physical, chemical and biological processes commonly referred to as "self-purification" and involving the symbiotic action of algae and bacteria under the influence of sunlight and air.
(18) Femen aren't subtle, they aren't inoffensive, and they certainly aren't sorry.
(19) For intensive pig units on limited land close to houses, the NIAE has evolved a new system of slurry treatment which can convert all the slurry from a fattening piggery into inoffensive solids.
(20) The regulator took into account the BBC’s argument that the use of the term was intended as “an inoffensive, humorous play on words”.