"veiled language" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the use of euphemisms, metaphors, and figures of speech to convey a more general or subtle meaning than would be communicated through literal language. For example, one might say, "The controversial topic was discussed with veiled language to avoid stirring up too much debate."
In slightly veiled language, Hadreas claims the flamboyance of the stereotypical gay man, and then brandishes it as both a right and a threat.
Police officers are escorting people back to their ancestral homes, as the government calls them, which seems to be thinly veiled language for ethnic separation.
Seemingly everywhere I look, people criticize her in veiled language.
Jesus often used veiled language in his parables in order to make people think deeply about their meaning.
In sharp contrast and despite Social Security's tremendous importance and success over the last 81 years, the Republican Platform calls, in only thinly veiled language, for cutting and privatizing Social Security -- in short, dismantling it.
In the veiled language of diplomacy, it would be difficult to make a more explicit comparison between two parallel struggles.
If the alienation and disaffection of California's urban ghettos produced the strident voice of leaders like Oakland Black Panthers founder Huey P. Newton, California suburbs would respond with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who refined the art of racially coded appeals veiled in the language of individual rights, tax cuts and minimal government.
* Language veiled to the pre-teens in question just in case... it's a secret.
What we need, what the world needs instead is actual love, not empty rhetoric and sanctified condemnation that's veiled in the language of love, yet infused with political and cultural ideology.
Using not-so-veiled language, Lautenberg actually says it's O.K. for a man to make fun of a woman's age.
"Using not-so-veiled language, Lautenberg actually says it's O.K. for a man to make fun of a woman's age," the narrator says in the commercial.
