One of the things that most drives me batty about the media is its persistence in repetitively using the same euphemistic words over and over. The two that make my skin crawl every time I read them are “embattled”—which is found most often these days preceding the words “Tom” and “DeLay”—and “troubling,” which is such a nice way of describing something that’s clearly TFU.
Even though those two are my particular pet peeves, there are hundreds of them that I see all the time. What euphemistic word are you most tired of reading in news articles?
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