Associations to the word «Dysphemistic»

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Wiktionary

DYSPHEMISTIC, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism

Dictionary definition

DYSPHEMISTIC, adjective. Substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one ; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne