newspeak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newspeak
new + speak, coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949)
Example Sentences
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Stories of censorious undergraduates and ridiculous newspeak in the U.S. found grateful consumers in French, German, and U.K. media.
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 Vaknin, Samuel
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