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Double-plus-ungood

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Terrible, very bad. not-comparable

    "There's only one problem. Files converted from Word Perfect to Q&A format don't work with Q&A. Q&A thinks it has read in the file, but then the whole mess blows up. Ungood. Double plus ungood."

Etymology

Coined by George Orwell (as doubleplusungood) in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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