An innocuous, inoffensive or circumlocutory term or phrase for something unpleasant or obscene.

"What possible reason do we have to agree to these obscene terms?"

As there is no explanatory note for the term obscene, the interpretation of it may become highly subjective and therefore contentious.

The judge has also been criticized for permitting the same lawyer to ask Ms. Hanson to define an obscene term.

She had noticed that American men seemed to avoid the use of obscene terms in the company of women.

The young policemen in the cordon were polite, she said, but an older officer told her to get off home in obscene terms.

The adjective quilombera used in the third line is a mildly obscene term.

The demonstrators carried posters attacking Mayor David Dinkins in crudely racial, sometimes obscene terms.