euphemist
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Roget 850:
taste;
good taste,
refined taste,
cultivated taste;
delicacy,
refinement,
fine feeling,
gust,
gusto,
tact,
finesse;
nicety
etc.
(discrimination)
465;
to prepon [Gr.];
polish,
elegance,
grace.
judgment,
discernment
etc.
465.
dilettantism,
dilettanteism;
virtu;
fine art;
culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste]
aesthetics.
man of taste
&c.;
connoisseur,
judge,
critic,
conoscente,
virtuoso,
amateur,
dilettante,
Aristarchus†,
Corinthian,
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.],
stagirite†,
euphemist.
caviare to the general"
[Hamlet].
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Roget 935:
flatterer,
adulator;
eulogist,
euphemist;
optimist,
encomiast,
laudator [Lat.],
whitewasher.
toady,
toadeater†;
sycophant,
courtier,
Sir Pertinax MacSycophant;
flaneur [Fr.],
proneur [Fr.];
puffer,
touter†,
claqueur [Fr.];
clawback†,
earwig,
doer of dirty work;
parasite,
hanger-on
etc.
(servility)
886.
yes-man,
suckup,
ass-kisser [Vulg.],
brown-noser [Vulg.],
teacher's pet.
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Roget 577:
ornament;
floridness c†.
adj..
turgidity,
turgescence†;
altiloquence
etc.
adj.†;
declamation,
teratology†;
well-rounded periods;
elegance
etc.
578;
orotundity.
inversion,
antithesis,
alliteration,
paronomasia;
figurativeness
etc.
(metaphor)
521.
flourish;
flowers of speech,
flowers of rhetoric;
frills of style,
euphuism†,
euphemism.
big-sounding words,
high-sounding words;
macrology†,
sesquipedalia verba [Lat.],
Alexandrine;
inflation,
pretension;
rant,
bombast,
fustian,
prose run mad;
fine writing;
sesquipedality†;
Minerva press.
phrasemonger;
euphuist†,
euphemist.
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