The phrase "a polite term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing language or expressions that are considered courteous or respectful.
Example: "In professional settings, 'thank you' is often regarded as a polite term to express gratitude."
Alternatives: "a courteous expression" or "a respectful phrase".
Also, last month, the government claimed to have unearthed a serious "breach of national security"—a polite term for a coup plot reportedly involving Muslim army officers.In a country with such fresh memories of military rule, the sight of Mr Obasanjo, a former general, ousting elected politicians by decree worries many.
Getting rid of the neoliberal politics of austerity in which 'austerity' is a polite term for eliminating people's livelihoods, is the step in the right direction — away from the abyss.
Everyone foraged, often a polite term for extortion at gunpoint.
Then central banks resorted to quantitative easing (QE), a polite term for the creation of money.
So is a debt restructuring — a polite term for partial default — the answer?
World music, let's face it, is just a polite term for "miscellaneous music".
This creates a local environment ripe for "leakages --a poleakages --ar corruption.
It is an oddly polite term — a euphemism — that conceals varying degrees of fear, loathing, and admiration.
"Sensory" and "response" are fairly obvious, and "meridian," Jenn said, is a more polite term for "orgasm".
I laughed, he grinned, and we rolled on, but I didn't have the heart to further ask him about the recent trial and conviction -- and then reversal -- of former Guatemalan dictator/General Efrain Rios Montt for mass human rights violations -- a somewhat polite term for the virtual genocide of Mayan people there in the 1980s while Rios Montt was in charge.
He says don't think there is a better more polite term or standard term, you go with what you and the people around you talk like".
