Example sentences for: doublespeak

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

  • 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.

  • This particular brand of sexual doublespeak has been remarked upon before, most famously by the late French historian Michel Foucault, who, in his History of Sexuality (published in English in 1978), put forth his unexpected "repressive hypothesis": Those supposedly tight-lipped Victorians, in the course of devising rules to regulate sex and the sciences that investigate its perversions, in fact talked and wrote more about sex than anyone before them.

  • I can grant the dysfunction of our politicians over the study published by the American Psychological Association, but David Plotz is being uncharacteristically soft on what is, after all, a marked instance of using PR doublespeak to avoid taking responsibility ("").

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

  • 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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