journalese

How To Use journalese In A Sentence

• QUOTE ABOVE: This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese'). Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
• Yet again a responsible Scottish newspaper resorts to the most cliche-ridden and banal journalese on the subject of our musical heritage and traditions and in particular our noble instrument, the Highland bagpipe.
• It smacks more of journalese and of journalists protecting their sources than of serious doctoral work and of scholars giving references for others to evaluate.
• Isn't it clear that Albert is fundamentally not ‘on board’, not willing to bury the ugly reality in vacuous journalese?
• Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation. Hito
• journalese;" and as the picturesque reporter is a greater power in America To-day, Observations and Reflections
• Ian Katz called the exercise ‘a quixotic idea dreamed up last month in a north London pub’ - journalese for ‘We wuz drunk.’
• The Persian Gulf War 1991 is bound to become Gulf War I since Time magazine, the self-appointed arbiter of universal journalese, has begun to label the present Iraq war as Gulf War II.
• This, of course, leads to that particular form of "journalese" in which a cricket-ball becomes a "leathern missile" and so forth. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
• Is sufficiently — er — journalese?" he interrupted suavely. Local Color