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One particularly outrageous example of a coy euphemism crops up in Diane Johnson's The State of the Language.
That's like God deciding to communicate to us via that cinnamon bun shaped like Mother Teresa: way too coy.
MoMA's coy refusal to identify the subjects of the portraits (wall panels give title, date, and medium) suggests that their identities don't matter, even while first-name titles imply that they do--that intimacies are being explored and revealed.
Sure the big companies are more coy in their pitches--the Hall's Zinc Defense box says zinc "may" relieve cold symptoms and, in small print, denies making any claim to treating a health condition--but that only makes the sham more effective.
There are coy captions: "Was this the face that launched a thousand subpoenas?"