Sentences with phrase «avoid euphemisms»

But those in both professions are well advised to avoid euphemisms and call a spade a spade — even if the spade is in the hands of a gravedigger.

• Avoid euphemisms.

I have avoided all euphemisms.

The description is less vague and avoids euphemisms.

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I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

She notes in a recent article for a professional journal that at least one GFI publication she has reviewed advised parents to avoid spanking their children in public, to be careful about neighbors hearing their children's cries in apartment buildings and «to instruct one's children not to tell anyone — even the child's other parent in a divorce situation — about occurring chastisement (GFI's euphemism for corporal punishment), due to potential «misunderstandings.»»

Given our cultural reluctance to talk openly about women's periods — even ads for tampons and liners tend to rely on euphemisms and avoid any...

In the bodybuilding community they talk about «eating clean» which is an euphemism for whole one - ingredient foods and avoiding sugars and processed foods.

Using euphemisms like «put to sleep» or «went away» should be avoided.

You have the right to be informed of the dogs actual breed or breed mix, and if not known, to receive the best guess from a shelter professional, with no euphemisms or avoiding breeds that conjure up public fear (e.g. Pit Bull, Chow, etc..)