Funny use of words and verbiage.

What about ‘preowned cars’?- to indicate second hand cars.
Not only are the print media culpable for this.Writers like late Robert Ludlum engages himself with abandon in his novels.Pure verbiage.
Why can’t writer’s use vivid imagery while writiing news/stories?It is not a sin to write good rich English prose.
I am not suggesting to say that you should say’-Those were my salad days , when I was green in my judgement to indicate I was immature when i decided earlier.
You might try something interesting imagery and good grammar.