genteelism

"The term lady is almost invariably used as a genteelism."

The dreadful genteelism for 'hard up' seemed to be wrung out of her.

"Between you and I", which has been around for much longer, is just a horrible genteelism, which unfortunately seems to be spreading.

I refuse to be a charity case, no matter that they call it by another genteelism, Guaranteed Annual Income.

THE term "painter-etcher" was more than a genteelism distinguishing the "fine" from the commercial etcher.

It's another genteelism.

Many are serigraphs (a genteelism for silk-screen prints), whose bright colors put them immediately in the second half of the 20th century.

Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including genteelism, commercialese, academese and journalese.

"What's a genteelism?"

He called this "suffocating genteelism," and wrote that it has become "as grim a threat to movies as the rankest commercialism that could ever be reputed to Hollywood."

Left to themselves by the German bourgeoisie - because in German usage 'sister' was the accepted genteelism for 'mistress'- the Wordsworths declined into misery and homesickness.

She might have mentioned "virile," "poetic," "humane" and "edged," as well as "vitality," "passion," "immediacy," "momentum" and (not in a good way) "genteelism."

Looking back over the last couple of years, it is easy to see "Driving Miss Daisy," "Avalon" and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" as the latest examples of "suffocating genteelism," and to worry that Agee's warning is as valid as ever.