This is why the bear was a greatly respected animal, with several euphemistic names.

Nanny buzzed on about the Wizard's having mounted a new kind of youth camp, the Emperor's Garden-a pretty, euphemistic name.

Plouton was one of several euphemistic names for Hades, described in the Iliad as the god most hateful to mortals.

This is why the bear (karhu) was a greatly respected animal, with several euphemistic names (such as otso, mesikämmen and kontio).

The euphemistic names made a certain sense because they were used in conjunction with preventing the American press from reporting the wars unescorted and uncensored.

This front was to be held by the new First Parachute Army, a euphemistic name for a paper formation.

If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection.

The East Germans preferred to call it by the more euphemistic name of the "action strip" (Handlungsstreifen).