外がい交こう辞じ令れい

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

diplomatic language; tactful phrasing

Refers to polite, non-committal, or strategically vague expressions typical of diplomacy, often implying insincerity or mere courtesy. Used as a noun or with の to modify another noun.

• 彼かれの返へん事じは外がい交こう辞じ令れいに過すぎなかった。

  His reply was nothing more than a diplomatic nicety.

• それは外がい交こう辞じ令れい的てきな表ひょう現げんだ。

  That's a tactful, diplomatic way of putting it.