Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

    The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.

More definitions
  • any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The party's platform is full of doublespeak aimed at dressing its misanthropic policies up in the language of liberty and justice.

    Платформа цієї партії переповнена політичними евфемізмами, що направлені на обгортання людиноненависнецької політики у мову свободи й справедливості. — deniko

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  2. In the United States, "right to work" is doublespeak for union-busting measures.

    У Сполучених Штатах, термін "право на роботу" - це політичний евфемізм для засобів, направлених проти профспілок. — deniko

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  3. During the Gulf War, the U.S. Department of Defense coined the doublespeak term "visiting a site" to refer to bombing missions.

    Під час війни у Перській затоці, міністерство оборони США винайшло евфемістичний термін "відвідати місцезнаходження", говорячи про бомбардування. — deniko

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Translations

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Origin

From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used

From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.

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Synonyms

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See also

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