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Doublespeak

//ˈdəbəlˌspiːk// noun

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

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

  2. 2
    any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not wordnet

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.

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