newspeak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newspeak
new + speak, coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949)
Example Sentences
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As John Wilson pointed out in the 1990s, “PC” was a discourse that inspired readers—and above all, thousands of would-be stand-up comics—to come up with their own “PC” newspeak.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
“Food processor” sounds like newspeak concocted by a sinister culinary regime to reassure the international community.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
It gripped him long before he came up with Big Brother, Oceania, newspeak or the telescreen, and it’s more important than any of them.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 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
A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
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