OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 53847

newspeak

/ˈn(j)uːspiːk/
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neolengua
Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.
Yet no-one would deny that a form of ‘newspeak’, however altered, is all too prevalent. Where [George] Orwell’s society was governed by the stick, we are offered the carrot. The tr…
[T]he last stage in the evolution of the Russian literary avant-garde and its final demise was marked by its sharp and growing conflict with the rise of newspeak. The concept of ne…
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