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doublespeak
Doublespeak (noun) means any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
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Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
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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 any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.