Facecrime

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A facial expression considered unacceptable. countable, uncountable

    "It's getting hard to keep track of all the blue-check marks who called for the death of these kids."

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"It's getting hard to keep track of all the blue-check marks who called for the death of these kids."

Etymology

From face + crime. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to the act of having a facial expression indicating an unacceptable state of mind.

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