Example sentences for: newspeak

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

  • Nor would it be correct simply to draw comparisons with newspeak or some other centrally decreed and regulated system.

  • Some very talented people have brought their knowledge to bear on everyday questions and problems of language in this book: Martin Manser, whose Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary was favorably reviewed here [XIV, 2]; Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary ; Jonathon Green, compiler of the Thesaurus of Slang, Newspeak , and a Dictionary of Jargon (soon to be reviewed here); and John Silverlight, who writes a language column in The Observer , which I have not seen.

  • In keeping with conservative newspeak, Gingrich referred to these as the taxes on "savings and job creation" and the tax on "death benefits."

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

  • For although the vocabulary does make important use of computer terminology, and although it does share with newspeak a penchant for blends and acronyms and an avoidance of adjectives and adverbs, it reflects a manner and an environment greater than both computerese and newspeak.


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