06605396-n 'an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one';
 
English dysphemism ( )
Italian disfemismo
Definitions
Japanese
無礼でない表現に代わる不快で批難の表現
English
an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one
his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter
Relations
Hyponym: bus old_man
Hypernym: saying
Antonym: euphemism
Semantic Field: communicationn
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SUMO: ⊂ LinguisticExpression

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.196)

SentiWN: (+0.00 -0.50) MLSentiCon: (+0.38 -0.62)


Langs:

Seen Lemmas: menaikkan;
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