Example sentences for: doublespeak

How can you use “doublespeak” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In "," William Saletan dissects the diplomatic doublespeak for negotiating with Milosevic.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • It is, I suspect, this bit of doublespeak that has really set off the alarm, alerting both the hypocrisy-sniffers and the exploitation-of-women's-bodies people at the same time.


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