The barber's pole is used as a euphemistic way of advertising a brothel, thus reducing the likelihood of police intervention.

Instead, the common public response was disinvestment, which is a euphemistic way to say we neglected to maintain or renew the region's vital infrastructural base.

We also have . . . some intelligence: second-, third-hand accounts of, well, variable veracity would be the euphemistic way of putting it.

Invariably, there is a question - it's always a white person, and they put it in a euphemistic way: Do all the students still sit together in the cafeteria?

The picture caused a stir in the market, which now seems to be in a state of transition, a euphemistic way of denoting downturn.

Benton Bergmeister had been assigned an "inside room," which was a euphemistic way of saying he had a room with a parking lot view.

This was Nixon's euphemistic way of reassuring Bush that they still had a deal.

But any more euphemistic way of phrasing it would mean the same thing.

She is big-boned, not in the euphemistic way but actually, and pretty, with a comic intelligence and a practical air.

That was a euphemistic way of saying that a woman would be able to go over her superior's head when he was part of the problem.