euphemism

For Tanton, “population” became a euphemism for “immigration.”

With time, “immigrant” would become a euphemism for “nonwhite.”

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

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

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.