How To Use Doublespeak In A Sentence
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With the rise of doublespeak, or what is commonly known as "political correctness", we have already begun the journey of reshaping our language along those lines which fit an orthodoxy of "acceptability".
Archive 2007-05-01
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Columnist Max Castro writes in today's Miami Herald about one double standard that is of a type that "infuriates" other nations:On Tuesday, the United States gave its blessing to a program -- known in bureaucratic doublespeak as the ''Airbridge Denial Program'' -- that allows Colombian fighter pilots to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs.
Archive 2003-08-01
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It's fitting that in speaking her mind on behalf of her constituents, she stays away from the convoluted doublespeak that passes for political rhetoric these days and, instead, calls'em like she sees'em.
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Well, for a lady who thinks she can accuse the CIA of lying to her and not expect repercussions, I guess this sort of misguided doublespeak is par for the course. dreamer
Pelosi: There will be public option in House health care bill
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Instead, he retreated behind the refuge of denial and doublespeak.
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That guy has doublespeak down to an art form, like really good poetry.
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The desire to disable corporate jargon and political doublespeak is a mission that Mullen shares with the Language Poets, but that is not the only area of expression that focuses her interest.
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Orwell coined the term doublespeak to describe one kind of propaganda practiced by the state in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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His witty sarcasm has been replaced by the still-ironic but much less amusing regime of menacing doublespeak.
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The timing could be a mere coincidence; it could also be plain doublespeak.
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The Commission liked my theory well enough to bury it in political doublespeak and jargon and call it their own.
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Obama's slavish conformity to pro-choice doublespeak is especially relentless.
Verbal Duplicity and False Choices
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The same description might be used to indicate the power of political doublespeak.
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On the blogs and elsewhere, it is being played out as if this is more evidence of Hillary engaging in doublespeak, or flip-flopping, or whatever, and, quite frankly, it is bullshit.
Balloon Juice » 2007 » October
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He lacks one of the basic political skills: the art of doublespeak.
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But then doublespeak is the lingua franca of the fight game – not that Chisora is complaining about a deal that could deliver not just one Klitschko but both of them.
Dereck Chisora delighted with three-fight deal for Klitschkos' titles
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There is a marvellous combination of doublespeak and doublethink here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence, if my article was intended as doublespeak, the foregoing is my apology.
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The electorate is not susceptible to such doublespeak.
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We need candidates armed with insight, not condescending doublespeak.
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The doublespeak is needed because of the contradiction between the Bush Administration's concept of freedom and democracy and the actual principles and requirements of freedom and democracy.
The Bubble of American Supremacy
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From the blatant Republican policy doublespeak emanating from think-tank sponsored word doctors to the outright obstruction and lies expectorated by Republican congressional representatives and senators, the very concept of governance can only be considered once the culprits are removed.
Steven Weber: Comedy Relief
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One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with.
Vue Weekly
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The concept was later refined as "doublespeak" -- which is simply the notion that if you say something often enough, you can convince normal people that something is its opposite.
George Orwell is Reborn as Mitch McConnell
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The word doublespeak grew out of this post-1984 culture and is just as timely today.
Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
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What a heartening response without any of the standard political doublespeak.
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The word doublespeak was coined in the early 1950's after George Orwell's book, 1984, was published in the late 1940's.
Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
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Doublespeak, purveyed through television news and cinema, invades the mind of every citizen.
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Unless the risk is defined it is political doublespeak.
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The doublespeak is evident in that it's all coined in words of freedom.
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Hence, if my article was intended as doublespeak, the foregoing is my apology.
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This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity.
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His oratory and intellectual robustness a breath of fresh air from the political doublespeak that obscures the core issues of the conflict.
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That is doublespeak, political gobbledygook.
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Don't let all the double taxation doublespeak make you doubt that for one minute.
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At best doublespeak makes language sound messy and vague; at worst it makes lies sound like truth.
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He seems to prefer candor to contention, honest talk to doublespeak.
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By contrast, doublespeak is dishonest and dangerous.
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The political season is always a prime opportunity to hear new examples of doublespeak - the use of language to make lies seem truthful.
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It also explores doublespeak in terms of rhetorical devices, namely, personification, dehumanization, metaphor, understatement and inflation.
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He detonates distracted droves like dynamite, desolates communities with doublespeak.
The Liar