euphemistically
advEtymology From euphemistic + -ally.
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In a euphemistic manner.
- Sex was the primary ingredient of the gatherings, which were euphemistically called "free house parties".1964, James Holledge, Sex and the Australian Teenager, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 124:
- Today’s vast Swedish pornography industry got its start when the Vikings created what they euphemistically referred to as “Icelandic Sagas,” which were actually torrid porn carved on large rocks, or Runes.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 41: