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Euphemism

This document lists euphemisms and their meanings. It provides alternative terms used to describe potentially offensive or uncomfortable topics like death, disabilities, poverty, and other difficult subjects in a more indirect or positive manner. Some examples included are using "vertically challenged" instead of "short", "intellectually challenged" instead of "idiot", and "correctional facility" instead of "jail". The document aims to illustrate the use of euphemisms to discuss sensitive topics while avoiding direct or negative language.

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Euphemism

This document lists euphemisms and their meanings. It provides alternative terms used to describe potentially offensive or uncomfortable topics like death, disabilities, poverty, and other difficult subjects in a more indirect or positive manner. Some examples included are using "vertically challenged" instead of "short", "intellectually challenged" instead of "idiot", and "correctional facility" instead of "jail". The document aims to illustrate the use of euphemisms to discuss sensitive topics while avoiding direct or negative language.

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Euphemism Meaning Euphemism Meaning

1. Accidental death collateral damage 18. Idiot intellectually challenged


2. Blind Visually challenged 19. In a family way pregnant
3. Barber Hair dresser 20. Jail correctional facility
4. Beating children corporal punishment 21. Killed whacked
5. Blow chunks vomit 22. Lavatory rest room
6. Big boned over weight 23. Old person senior citizen
7. Big C cancer 24. Poor people in poverty
8. Capital punishment death sentence 25. Pre-owned second hand
8. Cheap economical 26. Nature’s call to urinate
9. Deaf hearing impaired 27. Retarded mentally challenged
10. Ethnic cleansing genocide 28. Short vertically challenged
11. Death bite the big one, dearly departed, 29. Slow-learners late – bloomers
put to sleep, going to the other 30. Stupid academically challenged
side, passed away, bit the dust, 31. terminate restroom
kicked the bucket. 32. Toilet kill/ remove
33. Undertaker funeral director / mortician
12. Fat obese, big-boned, full-figured 34. Unemployed between jobs
13. Fired/sacked dismissed from job 35. Underperforming assets bad loans
14. Handicapped differently-abled
15. Homeless on the streets
16. House wife home maker
17. director / mortician undertaker

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