newspeak
noun/ˈnjuːspiːk/
/ˈnuːspiːk/
[uncountable]- language that is not clear or honest, for example the language that is used in political propagandaWord Origin1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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