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* WesternAnimation/SouthPark

** In Recap/SouthParkS6E10BebesBoobsDestroySociety, the other girls use this method to call Bebe a slut in the cafeteria when they get jealous of her getting all the boys' attention because of her newly developed breasts.

** In ''Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society'' the other girls use this method to call Bebe a slut in the cafeteria.

Anyway, other things that can be hidden between coughs or sneezes are names, as in, "I'm not going to name names but there's one person in this group who's a real pain coughALICEcough," or even entire sentences. Occasionally subverted by repeating the hidden words for clarification, implying the insult was garbled by a genuine cough and the cougher really just has no respect for the person in question.

* In Disney's ''Disney/BrotherBear'' recently-turned-bear Kenai is trying to convince moose brothers Rutt and Tuke that he's actually human. Tuke coughs his opinion of Kenai. But Rutt [[TooDumbToLive seriously can't understand him]], and Kenai knows ''exactly'' what he's saying.

* Used by Naveen in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' to call Tiana a "killjoy" and a "stick in the mud".

!!Examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade", the third-grade teacher remarks that Bart came from [[ReallyGetsAround Krabappel]]'s class (coughSLUTcough).
** Also, in "She Used to Be My Girl," one-shot character Chloe remarks that she's slept with numerous famous people, including coughCLINTONcough.

* From one [[LetsPlay/HellfireCommentaries playthrough]] of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'':
-->'''[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname THD:]]''' *Cough*Xehanort!

-->'''Yahtzee:''' But there are games with certainly worse combat and games with more offensive depictions of women. [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud (Cough,]] ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', [[LampshadeHanging Unconvincing]] [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud cough.)]]

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had it at least twice: when Monica's correcting the title Ross was buying at the comics shop as a kid ("Seeing what kinda trouble Spider-Man got into that week" "*cough* WonderWoman") and once when an old hater of Rachel reacts to her table manners ("*sneeze* Typical")

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11254763/5/The-Butterfly-Effect The Butterfly Effect]]'' Harry breaks Draco Malfoy's wrist by pushing him off his broom with accidental magic as punishment for taking Neville's Remembrall. Later Harry, Ron and Hermione visit Neville in the hospital wing.

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/202671/chapters/353636 The Western Sky - Series 2]]'' Hermione is forced to return headship of House Black to the [[ItMakesSenseInContext formerly dead]] Sirius Black. Luna decides to pass headship of House Potter to Hermione so that the change will be on their terms and not Madame Marchbanks'.

-->'''Rutt''': Eh, gezundheit.

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* ''Series/TheOffice'' (American version) has Andy and Dwight get into a coughing conversation after their first day of work together.

Sometimes the cough doesn't hide any words, but indicates complete disbelief at what the cougher is hearing. Rarely, it may be a genuine, instinctive response to something the cougher finds truly {{egregious}}.

* In MikeJ's review of ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', he says that Bob Hoskins had ruined his career years before, just before sneezing into a DVD box of ''Film/SuperMarioBros''.

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'':
-->"You only like him because he's handsome", said Ron scathingly.\\

** The next book introduces Dolores Umbridge, whose favoured method of getting attention is pretending to cough before making a pointed comment. An awesome moment on [=McGonagall=]'s part is her completely ignoring said coughs, before finally offering a throat lozenge.