Sublime

cadge

One is forced either to use this “offensive” word and be deemed a disagreeable person and as such excluded from polite discourse, or to say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself and thereby lending strength to what one is trying to attack.

Mercenaries weren’t called such in my time. They hid behind euphemisms like “security contractor” or “private military corporation”,