Example sentences for: orwellian

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

  • Very Orwellian.

  • The behavior he is now being excoriated for was not Orwellian, in the sense of 1984 's world of inverted truth--but Orwell-like, meaning that it was in keeping with a career based on political courage and intellectual integrity.

  • The period between 1959 and 1965 was a surreal time of government by means of slogans and Orwellian acronyms.

  • The Starr camp's plea that cover-ups should be judged by their significance at the time they were committed, not by their significance today, was washed out in a tide of Orwellian revision.

  • One could write a longish essay on the allusions conjured up by the words Dickensian, Kafkaesque , and Orwellian , yet none of these (among thousands of others) are represented.


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