euphemistic
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Even former president Tsai was careful to refer to China in euphemistic terms like “the other side of the strait” or “the Beijing authorities”.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
Translating this phrase too literally into English blunts its violence, making it sound old-fashioned or euphemistic when Ovid’s language is neither.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022
I assume saying “my boss is a nightmare” will raise alarm bells, and some euphemistic version — “I have serious differences of opinion with my supervisor” — is hardly better.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Parents in the sky — it’s the kind of euphemistic deflection offered by adults such as “the Big Bozo,” as the orphans call their overseer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were both thinking of all the different meanings behind that euphemistic phrase.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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