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doublespeak

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Noun — Language used deliberately to hide or twist its real meaning, often through vague or misleading wording.

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Etymology

From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.

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