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doublespeak
adjective as in meaningless
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adjective as in senseless
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noun as in buzzword
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noun as in jargon
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noun as in language
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noun as in langue
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- accent
- argot
- articulation
- brogue
- cant
- communication
- conversation
- dialect
- diction
- dictionary
- discourse
- expression
- gibberish
- idiom
- interchange
- jargon
- lexicon
- lingua franca
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- phraseology
- prose
- signal
- slang
- sound
- speech
- style
- talk
- terminology
- tongue
- utterance
- verbalization
- vernacular
- vocabulary
- vocalization
- voice
- word
- wording
noun as in speech
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noun as in verbalization
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verb as in dissemble
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verb as in misinform
Example Sentences
But the distinction feels like a retreat into semantics — or what Orwell might refer to as “doublespeak.”
It’s doublespeak, masking an agenda to galvanize a bloodthirsty base and make state violence sound reasonable, even necessary.
The lifestyle doublespeak people used to survive under successive dictatorships in Eastern Europe came a little more easily to Poles, who had practiced it before.
There is a lot of doublespeak, that as women, we have never been as emancipated and free to do what we want as we are today.
Fox News host Harris Faulkner's doublespeak on the subject drew comparisons to North Korean state media.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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