Definition of Dysphemism
Dysphemism
dys·phe·mism
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(noun)
switching an offensive or disagreeable statement for a more favorable or inoffensive one;
e.g. She told him to stop smoking those cancer sticks as a dysphemism, yet all it did was make him angry.
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