Example sentences for: doublespeak

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  • Closely related to gobbledygook, but more malicious, is doublespeak . In 1973, the National Council of Teachers of English established a Committee on Public Doublespeak to help identify and stamp out evasive and obfuscating terminology slithering out of public sources, such as “uncontrolled contact with the ground” for “airplane crash” and “inoperative statement” for “lie.”

  • Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.

  • Doublespeak is a blending of Double-talk and Newspeak, the insidious language of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four .

  • In short, Kincaid concludes, not without a certain glee, "Eroticizing exists in symbiotic relation with sanitizing, and the veiling and the exposing exist in an encircling doublespeak."

  • Some of his fellow prion researchers suggest it might be a "viral co-factor," which is doublespeak for saying that the prion ain't the infectious agent, a virus is.


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