Meaning & use
newspeak
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Deliberately ambiguous, evasive, or misleading language used to manipulate public opinion.
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Critics accused the report of using newspeak to hide the company's declining profits.
The press secretary's carefully vague answers sounded like pure newspeak.
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Coined by George Orwell in "1984" for a fictional language designed to limit free thought, but now used generally for political or corporate doublespeak.
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