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Evasive language
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doublespeak
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., " downsizing " for layoffs , "servicing the target" for bombing ), in which case it is primarily ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1957, from double (adj.) + speak , coined on model of doublethink in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (the language in that book was Newspeak ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Appeasement caused by blindness was followed by delaying tactics and doublespeak intended to buy time. ▪ The same description might be used to indicate the power of political doublespeak .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
Usage examples of doublespeak.
It would serve them right, he thought, the doublespeak theocratic rabble.
This doublespeak is possible only because of the ultratolerance of benign Europeans.
Seventy years of totalitarianism had left them with a terrific appetite for back-tracking, doublespeak and doublecross.
He had headed down to the C & O Canal towpath in Georgetown, always his favorite spot, to clear his head of the political doublespeak and figure out a plan of attack.