doublethink
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of doublethink
double + think 1; coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949)
Example Sentences
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Greene and Bolling really provide a remarkable example of doublethink.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025
Virginia Heffernan chats with author Michael Wolff about Siege, the sequel to Fire and Fury, covering Steve Bannon, Trumpian doublethink, how Wolff gets sources to open up, and much more.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2019
From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019
To understand how and why the slogan came to be voted on by the Senate, you need first to engage with the malicious, trolling doublethink that characterises the worst parts of the internet.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2018
His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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