What are some examples of euphemistic words?

Answer 1

"issue" when you mean "problem"

"disturbed" when you mean "psychotic"

"sanitary engineer" when you mean "janitor"

"unusual" when you mean "bizarre"

"ample" or "horizontally endowed" when you mean "fat"

"challenged" when you mean "crippled" or "retarded" or "short" or "clueless"

"differently abled" when you mean "disabled"

"ill" when you mean "drunk"

"vertically challenged" when you mean "midget"

The key is that the words themselves are not inherently a euphemism. It's their use in place of something else that you don't want to say that makes them euphemistic. A euphemistic expression can have a perfectly normal, literal, unquestionable meaning. It becomes a euphemism when you are using it as a "nicer" way of saying something.