newspeak
(sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”
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How to use newspeak in a sentence
A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for newspeak
/ (ˈnjuːˌspiːk) /
the language of bureaucrats and politicians, regarded as deliberately ambiguous and misleading
Origin of newspeak
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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