euphemism

In one of the film’s most charged moments, Peck turns Orwell’s warning about political language into a montage of modern euphemisms: “peacekeeping operations,” “collateral damage,” “illegals” — and then, pointedly, “antisemitism 2024.”

In recent days Wang Hung-wei, a prominent lawmaker from the opposition Kuomintang party, criticised Zero Day Attack as "selling dried mangoes", a Taiwanese euphemism that means stoking unnecessary fear about the destruction of one's country.

“So it feels like it’s a euphemism for enforcement actions.”

Since her arrest, although that word seems like a euphemism, she has reportedly been held in ICE detention centers in four different states.

There was a criminal element, of course, but it was mostly blue-collar workers and street vendors who took it to endure tiring shifts, using the euphemism pampagilas or “performance-enhancer.”