HOW TO PRONOUNCE
euphemism
/ˈjufəˌmɪzəm/
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Begin with the sound of “you.”
The initial eu includes a y sound followed by oo and carries the primary stress. The ph sounds like f; keep the final ism as two lighter vowel beats here.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The article explains the use of a euphemism.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does euphemism mean?
noun
- The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.
- A word or phrase that replaces another in this way.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈjufəˌmɪzəm/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Plato, a utopian, organized his ideal republic in the name of science, which, through modesty and euphemism, he called philosophy.
I think he has, to use a euphemism very applicable to him, got outside of every one of them, except the toad.
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Seeing him thus quadrupedal in the grass, the priest raised his eyebrows rather sadly; and for the first time guessed that “fancies things” might be an euphemism.
Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?
My assistant, José, in the last year of our residence at Ega, “resgatou” (ransomed, the euphemism in use for purchased) two Indian children, a boy and a girl, through a Japurá trader.