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doublespeak

noun

  1. language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdəbəlˌspiːk/

noun

Etymology: From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.

  1. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

    The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.

    The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."