POLITICALLY CORRECT, adj. [...] 2) An unfortunately all-too-real leftist phenomenon with the connotations joyless, deadly dull, puritanical, painfully forced, patronizing (or matronizing), more interested in form than content, more interested in posturing than in effecting fundamental change, and (in regard to language) affected, awkward, wordy, euphemistic and vague. [...] If the suspected term is longer, clumsier, and less precise than the term it's intended to displace, chances are 99 out of 100 that it's politically correct.