newspeak
IPA: nˈuspik
Root Word: Newspeak
noun
- (fiction) The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.
- (computer languages) A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.
- Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.
- Alternative letter-case form of newspeak [Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.]
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Examples of "newspeak" in Sentences
- Don't fall into the newspeak trap.
- Newspeak is a class based language.
- Doublethink and Newspeak rule the day.
- I was not proposing any sort of newspeak.
- No, no, no, a hundred times no to newspeak.
- And it's straight out of Orwell's Newspeak.
- Please refrain from doubletalk and newspeak.
- This questioner may be interested in Newspeak.
- The Newspeak word for such a person was unperson.
- One of the intents of Newspeak is to obfuscate clear though and debate.
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