| Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism. |
| New Russian is a euphemism for black-market pimp, smuggler, gangster, any tough young man with capitalist cash, and there are lots of them. |
| Civic action is a euphemism for psy-war operations, propaganda and intelligence gathering. |
| The danger is of subsiding into a world of flavourless, colourless euphemism, leaving behind the robustness of good English. |
| Reform is a polite euphemism for forcing banks to close out bad loans, enforce bankruptcy, and require layoffs of excess workers. |
| After kissing the subject, he just tapers off, equivocates, engages in euphemism. |
