bureaucratese
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bureaucratese
Example Sentences
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It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
That’s bureaucratese for “we don’t feel too strongly about this.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
She walks out some hours later with a traumatized expression on her face, after flailing in a sea of incomprehensible bureaucratese, unable to extract a single coherent thought from her notes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
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
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