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bureaucratese
noun
(bu-reau-crat-ese)
a style of language held to be characteristic of bureaucrats and marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions
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officialese
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legalese
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jargon
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gobbledygook
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journalese
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verbiage
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newspeak
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doublespeak
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gobbledegook
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euphemism
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gibberish
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obfuscation
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argot
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bureaucracy
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lingo
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phraseology
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wordage
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locution
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wordiness
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phrase
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shorthand
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technobabble
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stenography
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declarative sentence
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platitude
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mot juste
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circumlocutions
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bafflegab
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ese
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abstract noun
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waffly
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buncombe
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prose
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gerunds
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homophones
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sophistries
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weasel words
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subjunctive
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tautology
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antonym
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archaisms
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neologism
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boilerplate
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prepositional phrase
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split infinitive
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inexactitude
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pedantry
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logorrhea
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indirectness
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onomatopoeia
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adjective
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balderdash
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officiousness
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syntax
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prolixity
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diphthongs
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mendacity
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hairsplitting
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semantics
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jabberwocky
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intransitive verb
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wrongheadedness
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illogic
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asperity
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malapropism
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acronyms
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wonk
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sarcasms
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bloviation
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drivelling
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obtuseness
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inconsequentiality
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doubletalk
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infelicities
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metaphors
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tsk
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plain
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adverbial
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colloquialism
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casuistry
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dissembling
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caviling
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grammarians
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participle
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bureaucrats
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bureacracy
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doggerel
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pithiness
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descriptive adjective
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initialism
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glottal
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noun
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hyperboles
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evasions
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scrivener
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tildes
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adverbs
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pompousness
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bureaucratese
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