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UK
/dˈʌbəlspˌiːk/
]
[ US /ˈdəbəɫˌspik/ ]
[ US /ˈdəbəɫˌspik/ ]
NOUN
- any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
How To Use doublespeak In A Sentence
- It also explores doublespeak in terms of rhetorical devices, namely, personification, dehumanization, metaphor, understatement and inflation.
- This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity.
- One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with. Vue Weekly
- The concept was later refined as "doublespeak" -- which is simply the notion that if you say something often enough, you can convince normal people that something is its opposite. George Orwell is Reborn as Mitch McConnell
- The word doublespeak grew out of this post-1984 culture and is just as timely today. Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
- What a heartening response without any of the standard political doublespeak.
- The word doublespeak was coined in the early 1950's after George Orwell's book, 1984, was published in the late 1940's. Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
- Doublespeak, purveyed through television news and cinema, invades the mind of every citizen.
- Unless the risk is defined it is political doublespeak.
- The doublespeak is evident in that it's all coined in words of freedom.