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newspeak
noun
(new-speak)
deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
Examples:
The welfare state brought its own newspeak.
Words Related to
newspeak
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orwellian
,
doublespeak
,
doublethink
,
neologism
,
gobbledygook
,
jargon
,
bureaucratese
,
phraseology
,
verbiage
,
circumlocution
,
gobbledegook
,
argot
,
claptrap
,
euphemisms
,
buncombe
,
journalese
,
weasel words
,
bafflegab
,
demagogy
,
shibboleth
,
sophistry
,
jingo
,
sophistic
,
pseudo
,
mendacity
,
tautology
,
propaganda
,
crapola
,
babble
,
obfuscation
,
abstract noun
,
buzzwords
,
mumbo jumbo
,
corporatism
,
rhetoric
,
catchwords
,
blather
,
marxism
,
excrescence
,
commonplaces
,
bullshit
,
metonymy
,
stalinist
,
sophists
,
flummery
,
tommyrot
,
agitprop
,
obscurantism
,
flapdoodle
,
archaisms
,
platitude
,
doubletalk
,
balderdash
,
ukase
,
crudities
,
bolshevism
,
statism
,
antonym
,
ocracy
,
zionism
,
irrelevancies
,
twaddle
,
reification
,
sloganeering
,
pinko
,
jabberwocky
,
drivel
,
leftism
,
eschaton
,
officialese
,
wrongheadedness
,
vulgarism
,
jingoist
,
illogic
,
zog
,
terminologies
,
annihilationist
,
sophism
,
welfarism
,
dissimulation
,
cracy
,
hackwork
,
barbarisms
,
jacobinism
,
roguery
,
politik
,
reductio ad absurdum
,
pabulum
,
jobbery
,
pablum
,
malthusianism
,
soundbite
,
booboisie
,
sovietism
,
synecdoche
,
moralism
,
discourse
,
bumf
,
quisling
,
liberalist
,
newspeak
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