Related Clues:

• Indirect expression
• Milder substitute word
• Mild term substituted for one less acceptable
• Softener of a kind
• Out of bed, on edge, in renovated semi: it's one for sex
• A rhetorical device, to put it mildly
• Milder term
• Inoffensive and indirect expression standing in for an offensive one
• Polite expression for you being against heartless feminism, we hear
• Inoffensive expression substituted for one that may be offensive
• Word used instead of something more unpleasant
• “Senior” rather than “old”, or “in an interesting condition” meaning “pregnant”
• Inoffensive term used in place of one considered offensive
• One's put to sleep
• One's left us for dead?