uncertain sexual preferences
- uncertain sexual preferences
homosexual tendencies
The phrase is only used when there is a high degree of certainty. Also as uncertain proclivities:
Boys with uncertain sexual preferences, only happy in male company... (Deighton, 1990)
His initial discomfort at finding himself in a strange place in the presence of a pretty young woman, an antiquarian of uncertain proclivities and a painting of equivocal appearance... (Pérez-Réverté, 1994, in translation)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
R. W. Holder.
2014.
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