euphemism

The media has deployed every euphemism imaginable to describe the former president’s public usage of bad words like ****, **** and ****.

Rather than call out the dangerous lunacy in plain view, the Times has chosen to engage in tortured euphemisms.

Huge new appropriations for nuclear weapons are voted under the euphemism of “modernization.”

Social media generally breeds this problem of people getting so enmeshed in their subcultures that they forget that most people don't share their jargon or euphemisms.

Similarly, in her opening track, “Taste” the singer says her ex-boyfriend “makes paintings with his tongue,” using a euphemism to explain his skills in the bedroom.