单词 | newspeak |
释义 | newspeak[ noo-speek, nyoo- ] / ˈnuˌspik, ˈnyu- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR newspeak ON THESAURUS.COM noun(sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.” Origin of newspeaknew + speak, coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 (1949) Words nearby newspeakNew South Wales, New Spain, newspaper, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newspeak, news peg, newsperson, newsprint, new-sprung, newsreader Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for newspeak
British Dictionary definitions for newspeaknewspeak / (ˈnjuːˌspiːk) / nounthe language of bureaucrats and politicians, regarded as deliberately ambiguous and misleading Word Origin for newspeakC20: from 1984, a novel by George Orwell Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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