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US
/ˈdəbəɫˌθɪŋk/
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[ UK /dˈʌbəlθˌɪŋk/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌbəlθˌɪŋk/ ]
NOUN
- believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
How To Use doublethink In A Sentence
- Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. Think Progress » Hastert: Foley Misconduct Was Presented As Something That ‘Might Have Affected Campaigns’
- Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance. The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- When it comes to concern for the effect of intervention on the locals, doublethink can really go into overdrive.
- Brotton is especially good on charting the doublethink involved in this effort. Times, Sunday Times
- What's the difference between bisociation and Orwellian doublethink? Bisociation, conspiracy, humor, and doublethink
- Ostensibly, she is the staunchest defender of the values of the country against those of the city, but her attitude reveals a degree of doublethink which suggests that her loyalty to tradition is not as steadfast as it might seem.
- He was in essence an illuminator of the darker recesses of the national psyche, a demythologiser-in-chief, a forensic dissector of PIRA-friendly doublethink, and a debunker of CJH at a time when it was far from fashionable. Slugger O'Toole
- Adding insult to injury, the spokesman's comments drip with sophistry, doublethink and non sequiturs. Times, Sunday Times
- But doublethink is a language you do not forget. Times, Sunday Times
- Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.