Sentence examples for polite term from inspiring English sources

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.

Moshing is the polite term for what will happen — mayhem is closer but still seems insufficient.

One is a reduction in inventory "shrinkage"—the industry's polite term for pilfering.

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".

His numerous activities in high school led to an award suggesting that he was, in polite terms, a politically astute suck-up.

As the German political elite continues to dismiss AfD's legitimacy — not always in the polite terms of typical German debate: Gunther Oettinger, a high-level European Union commissioner and former president of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, said he would shoot himself immediately if Petry was his wife — the party is growing.

As has been suggested in more or less polite terms, they should just butt out.

"It will give you what is known in polite terms as gastrointestinal distress".

There are more polite terms than "sharp practices" that she and her co-author could have used.