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.

Historically, euphemism has been correlated to fear or superstition. For example, often times we hear death referred to as passing away; while death is inevitable, avoiding direct reference to it both ...

“Where is the euphemism?” A college friend used to ask this question to point out the silliness of calling a toilet a bathroom. Euphemism in ordinary speech may be amusing, stilted, or polite, but in ...

Joseph Epstein’s entertaining “If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Try a Dysphemism” (op-ed, Feb. 10) highlights the differences between euphemism and its opposite. When I was in Congress ...