minced oath

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Examples
cheese and rice for Jesus Christ gosh for God geez for Jesus cripes for Christ darn or dang for damn heck for hell blooming, bleeding, or ruddy for bloody (UK) freaking, flaming, flipping, frigging, fricking or effing for fucking dadgum, gall dang, or "dagnammit" for goddamn

minced oath ‎(plural minced oaths)

A type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression.

euphemism based on a profanity