Terminological inexactitude to accuse another member of lying is considered unparliamentary. In more recent times, the term was used by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg to the Leader of the Oppositon, Jeremy Corbyn over an accusation that Rees-Mogg's company had moved a hedge fund into the Eurozone despite him being in favour of Brexit. Terminological inexactitude Terminological inexactitude is a phrase introduced in 1906 by British politician Winston Churchill. Today, it is used as a euphemism or circumlocution meaning a lie or untruth. Churchill first used the phrase following the 1906 election. Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 February 1906 as
Euphemism reason for the comparative scarcity of written evidence documenting the exterminations at Auschwitz, relative to their sheer number, is "directives for the extermination process obscured in bureaucratic euphemisms". The act of labeling a term as a euphemism can in itself be controversial, as in the following two examples: Phonetic euphemism is used to replace profanities, diminishing their intensity. Modifications include: Euphemism may be used as a rhetorical strategy, in which case its goal is to change the valence of a description from positive to negative. The use of a term with a softer connotation, though it shares the same meaning.