MODERN American speech, while not always clear or correct or turned with much style, is supposed to be uncommonly frank. Witness the current explosion of four-letter words and the explicit discussion ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Dysphemism is a useful word.

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion ...

Progressives have a problem with euphemism, and the problem is they take their euphemisms literally: They believe their own spin and, therefore, are consistently shocked when reality is not as skewed ...

If you’ve been around for a while, you’ve probably heard the phrases 'long in the tooth,' 'getting on in years' or even 'over the hill.' “Euphemism” is defined as “a mild or indirect word or ...

When he filled out the application forms for U.S. citizenship in 1963, Canadian-born Clive M. Boutilier, 32, reported that he had once been arrested for a homosexual act, but the charges were ...

I must admit that, as the armchair sort that I am, I hadn’t heard the term “hardening” in relation to school security until lately, in the wake of our current spate of mass shootings. But now we are ...