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newspeak

[ UK /njˈuːzpiːk/ ]
[ US /ˈnuˌspik/ ]
NOUN
  1. deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
    the welfare state brought its own newspeak

How To Use newspeak In A Sentence

  • His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.
  • SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen". Eric Williams: Right Like Me
  • In the same way nobody who reads a press-release accepts the face value, so can the Chinese learn how to use newspeak to get their message across.
  • We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
  • Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork. » Heinlein on national health care: TANSTAAFL heinleinblog
  • And some American journalists have begun to make that newspeak their own, among them CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson.
  • the welfare state brought its own newspeak
  • In other words, according to Lehman's newspeak dialectic, an honest history has to be prepared to be dishonest about what actually happened.
  • This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
  • We cannot, like 1984's famous newspeak, just blot out the ideas that we do not like.
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