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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950 (first attested in Mary McCarthy), from English author George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair, 1903-1950), especially in reference to his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Ironically, it has come to be used in reference to the totalitarian systems he satirized.It ...

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" Orwellian " is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society . It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda ...

Usage examples of orwellian.

Ministry of Everything, its sixteen-story clock tower rising in Orwellian fashion above the decaying city around it.

Iraqis have learned to adapt and survive in this Orwellian nightmare, but they live their lives on a tightrope, knowing that the slightest misstep could plunge them into a vat of acid--figuratively or literally.

Even without any contribution, Stuart Ressler was somewhere in the permanent files, many times, in immense Orwellian lists.

Nathanial Delaney, the new kid in school who finds himself quickly siding with a handful of other outsiders against the Orwellian excesses that have taken hold of the rest of their peers -- as well as most of the adults and figures of authority in Cheshunt.

It was his conviction that the United States was becoming part of the Third World and that their grandchildren would inhabit a mildly poisoned earth and endure lives of back-breaking drudgery under an increasingly Orwellian government.

John Murdoch wants, at first, only to comprehend and escape the Orwellian horrors of his nightlocked city, and find an elusive lost paradise called Shell Beach.

I asked myself, that the Orwellian message stated in the opening paragraph of this review was buried in the script of X-Men, that some capybara-skin-booted, Hugo-Boss-clad producer had this much clever self-consciousness?

One was a map of east Germany, or the German Democratic Republic, the rather Orwellian name its rulers prefer.

Things may be deleted for a variety of reasons, but nothing is totally lost in an Orwellian memory hole.

Quigley, former Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Bill Clinton's mentor, grasped the Orwellian implications of this over 30 years ago.

This ceaseless boosterism, in the service of order, health, prosperity, and the Singaporean way, quickly induces a species of low-key Orwellian dread.