euphemism
"Blue on blue" is used by the military as a euphemism for shooting your own side.
The talks were described as "candid" – a diplomatic euphemism for "angry".
People use euphemisms for sex all the time.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
hedging
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced
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Polite and respectful