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doublespeak
Doublespeak (noun) means Language used deliberately to hide or twist its real meaning, often through vague or misleading wording.
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Language used deliberately to hide or twist its real meaning, often through vague or misleading wording.
"The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret."
"The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage.""
— Brent D. Ruben, The Coming of the Information Age (1976)
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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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"doublespeak" (noun) means language used deliberately to hide or twist its real meaning, often through vague or misleading wording.
