Word for describing in a positive sense
What is a word that means to say in a positive sense? For instance, when writers say that a person was sexually assaulted instead of saying raped.
Or people use let go instead of fired.
What is that called?
Solution 1:
Such a usage is called a Euphemism.
"A figure of rhetoric by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is described or referred to by a milder term" (Chambers)
Solution 2:
A euphemism.
(Note, though, that sexual assault is a crime distinct from rape.)
Solution 3:
A slang term is "sugar-coating the [bitter] pill."