Answer: EUPHEMISM
The answer EUPHEMISM has 36 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Indirect expression
- Polite term
- Left for dead, for example
- Inoffensive term used in place of one considered offensive
- A rhetorical device, to put it mildly
- Seems as if raising the hem in here is a polite way of putting it
- A bit of indirect speech? That's nicer to hear
- 'The inflated style is itself a kind of -' (Orwell)
- MEP? Use him to spread an inoffensive word
- Milder substitute word
Last seen in:
- The Sun - Two Speed - Dec 7 2019
- Irish Times (Simplex) - Nov 28 2019
- The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 175
- Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 14 2017
- The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 919 - Jun 25 2017
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1208
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 14,337 - Apr 20 2016
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 28,024 - Jan 30 2016
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26002 - January 22, 2015
- L.A. Times Daily - Dec 13 2014