officialese

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In officialese the lifts are referred to as Personenumlaufaufzüge – people circulation lifts – while a popular bureaucrats’ nickname for them is Beamtenbagger or “civil servant excavator”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

Its conclusions, although couched in officialese, were nonetheless caustic.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2010

He then turns to the idea of classic style “as an antidote for academese, bureaucratese, corporatese, legalese, officialese, and other kinds of stuffy prose.”

From Washington Post

Federal Register last week was a brief announcement in almost incomprehensible officialese.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in his report to Congress on July 4, 1861, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, only made some wholly non-committal observations in ponderous "officialese."

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry