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euphemistic

adjective as in polite

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When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about “working people,” she uses euphemistic code for poor people.

From Salon

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

In Canada, the target reduction is 20 percent, and to coax people into joining the effort, the government’s Department of Citizen Strategy has come up with language as euphemistic as its name.

Dressed up in an inexhaustible supply of euphemistic rhetoric and double-talk, such immoral policies are stunning to see in real time.

From Salon

All of which is a euphemistic way of saying they would rather engage in spiritual abuse of clients than actually try to help them.

From Salon

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