I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.
New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i. e. , consistent).
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.
[talking about word "homophobia":] I myself don´t like "gays" - and let me stress that I don't consider that word a synonym for "homosexual" - in the same way that I don't like Communists and Feminists as advocates of a harmful and stupid ideology. But have no fear of them.
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell. "
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
We are synonyms but not the same.