newspeak

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Colonial policing also sharpened Orwell’s awareness of the anesthetizing effects of sanitized language, whose apotheosis, he showed us, was the soulless Newspeak of 1984.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020

In his dystopian world, English itself is being reformulated into something called Newspeak, so that, in a distant future, it will be impossible for anyone to express a non-Party-approved thought.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2019

Listening to de Blasio’s words, I was struck by his slick and merry gliding from the particular needs of a struggling community to the abstract Newspeak of Silicon Valley, promising at once everything and nothing.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

Newspeak, as Orwell described it in “1984,” is language that means the exact opposite of what it says.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017

His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.

From "1984" by George Orwell