bureaucratese
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bureaucratese
Example Sentences
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In translation, that's bureaucratese for widespread trauma to come.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023
When Professor Kahn left Ithaca for government posts, he became renowned for those precepts, attacking “the artificial and hyper-legal language that is sometimes known as bureaucratese or gobbledygook.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Hovering over modern discussions of usage is the spectre of George Orwell, whose essay “Politics and the English Language” challenged the degeneracy of bureaucratese.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 30, 2019
The bland bureaucratese of an April 2004 report by the General Accounting Office did not hide harsh conclusions: Overseas missions were draining the guard of its troops, particularly in expert specialties.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2016
He then turns to the idea of classic style “as an antidote for academese, bureaucratese, corporatese, legalese, officialese, and other kinds of stuffy prose.”
From Washington Post
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