euphemism

Ms. Wilson also favors more “diversions” for misdemeanors, which criminals know is a euphemism for fewer real consequences.

He was resented for puncturing euphemisms of communal self-regard.

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.”