Rhetorical trope: a pleasant replacement for an objectionable word that has pejorative connotations, e.g. to pass on for ‘to die.’ Euphemisms are common in political language: e.g. a period of negative growth for ‘recession.’...

A written euphemism which occurs in Brothers in Law, by Henry Cecil, indicating that the speaker used both an adjective and noun which the author considers to be taboo words. Most modern authors are now prepared to print any words, whether or not they...

A euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener; or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker.[1] It also may be a...