"We have only approved cargo," she said, in what she hoped was a voice sufficiently pleasant to avoid offense.

Modern covers of the song, in order to avoid racial offense, tend to replace above line with:

They also often sidestep controversy to avoid offense.

In order to avoid offense, all words resembling such a name were suppressed and replaced by another term of related meaning until the personage died.

The term is often used in a mocking sense when attempts at avoiding offense are seen to go too far.

But ultimately the show manages to avoid offense, as might also be expected from a show about nuns.

That meant, to avoid offense or smear, the modifier could be used only with a rightist noun.

The film's few street scenes were shot early in the morning, to avoid offense.

Therefore, it is usually referred to as D-Q University to avoid offense.

It is obviously much more fashionable to blame the hapless educators, thereby avoiding offense to the steadfastly learning disabled.