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In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
I've never been a fan of euphemism.
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
