newspeak
[noo-speek, nyoo-]
noun
(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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patois, vocabulary, argot, idiom, vernacular, lingo, parlance, slang, hype, indoctrination, publicity, disinformation, lexicon, abracadabra, nonsense, cant, colloquialism, twaddle, bunk, speech
Nearby words
- newsman,
- newsmonger,
- newspaper,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newsperson,
- newsprint,
- newsreader,
- newsreel,
- newsroom
Origin of newspeak
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Examples from the Web for newspeak
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
newspeak
noun
Word Origin for newspeak
C20: from 1984, a novel by George Orwell
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Newspeak
name of the artificial language of official communication in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 1949, from new + speak. Frequently applied to what is perceived as propagandistic warped English.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper