Orwellian
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- adjective
- /ɔrˈwɛliən/
- Literature
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orwelliano
- The new surveillance laws proposed by the administration are seen by many as an Orwellian threat to personal freedoms.
So like this is an example of how our world is becoming increasingly Orwellian.
- So like this is an example of how our world is becoming increasingly Orwellian.
- But the reality is all men and politicians are capable of creating an Orwellian world.
- And we're going to get into why one bank is actually calling what the Fed did and Orwellian move.
- All of that looks like the Orwellian confirmation of the worst fears of conspiracy theorists, right?
- I'd rather live in the world with some of the problems than this Orwellian nightmarish world where like, people are like, I can't say anything.
- You can decide if you think that's a little Orwellian, but that is what exists.
- The Central Office of Information sounds like the most Orwellian that I've ever heard.
- And I, I feel that we truly are in this Orwellian situation.
- It's really like Orwellian sick level shit.
- All cat shit, grade A deep, not even realistic George Orwellian fictional bullshit cat shit.
- Maybe Bradbury is a little more Orwellian Buffett.
- So therefore we must respond, which gets you into this sort of Orwellian understanding of how Orwellian all of this is.
- What, what happens when, you know, the Orwellian world, if that were ever a thing, actually happens, is that used?
Examples
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The Clinton administration's foreign policy critics ridiculed the change as an Orwellian word game to rationalize a misguided policy of engaging odious regimes.
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The Central Office of Information sounds like the most Orwellian that I've ever heard.
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And I, I feel that we truly are in this Orwellian situation.
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What, what happens when, you know, the Orwellian world, if that were ever a thing, actually happens, is that used?
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In this particular war, it's Orwellian to think making war can end it.
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I have to admit I find the whole thing a bit too Orwellian for my tastes.
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How strange to live in an Orwellian state that poses as a democracy.
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But this level of Orwellian hypocrisy is par for the course for these people.
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Then he began fighting his way through the Orwellian labyrinth of Chinese bureaucracy.
Academic text (2010) -
In a truly Orwellian way, the Clinton administration defined "unity" as "democratic" and "secession" as "anti-democratic."
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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Using power to treat people cruelly and unfairly
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8.3
A society, often in the future, where people suffer under cruel rule
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Showing extreme government control that stops people's freedom
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A society where people suffer and have little freedom
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A cruel, violent style like Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used
How Dystopian
- Formal
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8.9
- Literature
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7.5
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orwellian comes from the name George Orwell, the writer of Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the famous 'Big Brother' watches everyone and the state controls truth. So Orwellian describes a society or idea with constant spying, propaganda, and little personal freedom.