| Civic action is a euphemism for psy-war operations, propaganda and intelligence gathering. |
| That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives. |
| It was like a euphemism for a dirty word, he'd rather people'd just said the word than try to make it seem nicer. |
| After kissing the subject, he just tapers off, equivocates, engages in euphemism. |
| Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism. |
| The danger is of subsiding into a world of flavourless, colourless euphemism, leaving behind the robustness of good English. |
