| of or pertaining to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: |
| the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. |
An agreeable word or expression substituted for one that is potentially offensive, often having to do with bodily functions, sex, or death; for example, rest room for toilet, lady of the evening for prostitute. The Nazis used euphemism in referring to their plan to murder the world's Jews as “the Final Solution.”