newspeak
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9.7
- noun
- /ˈnjuːspiːk/
- Literature
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neolengua
- "Disabled" is quite visibly on the politically correct hit list in line for the newspeak treatment.
Examples
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Obama to the rescue... 'humanitarian intervention' 'kinetic military action', is this Newspeak for war?
Blog text (1) -
Let's look at the headline and first two paragraphs from the standpoint of Newspeak.
Blog text (2) -
Redistribution of wealth, it is called in Newspeak, has now passed the critical line.
Blog text (10) -
All your points about Orwellian newspeak and language massage are spot on.
Blog text (1) -
There was a word for it in Newspeak: OWNLIFE, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity.
Blog text (4) -
However, in the opposite direction, in George Orwell's 1984, Oceania's government used "Newspeak" to control human thought and therefore human emotion.
Blog text (31) -
Remember that in 1984, totalitarian newspeak is created not through elaborate sentences and jargon, but through cutting words out of the dictionary and simplifying grammar.
Academic text (2016) -
You're indulging in Orwellian Newspeak by deliberately calling one thing—sex—by the name of another thing—gender.
Blog text (24) -
The government's promises were often just newspeak, intended to distract the public from the reality of the situation.
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In her speech, she used newspeak to obscure the true implications of the policy changes.
Synonyms
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9.0
Confusing speech that hides the truth, often to avoid a direct answer
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9.3
Language that hides the truth by using vague or confusing words
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9.6
Talk that tries to trick people with false statements
Using unclear language that may mislead people
Antonyms
How Misleading
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6.8
- Literature
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9.7
291
6.2
- Literature
145
7.5
46
6.1
89
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Newspeak comes from George Orwell's novel '1984' and joins news and speak to describe a made-up language the rulers used to limit what people could say and think. That's why newspeak now means language that is unclear or false and is used to mislead or control people.