Definitions

newspeak

[noo-speek, nyoo-] / ˈnuˌspik, ˈnyu- /

NOUN

jargon

Synonyms

STRONGEST

argot idiom lingo parlance patois slang vernacular vocabulary

STRONG

abracadabra balderdash banality bombast bunk buzzwords cant colloquialism doublespeak drivel fustian gibberish insipidity lexicon neologism nonsense palaver patter rigmarole slanguage speech tongue twaddle usage

WEAK

cliché commonplace term hackneyed term mumbo jumbo overused term shoptalk stale language street talk trite language

Antonyms

STRONGEST

standard

STRONG

quiet sense silence

NOUN

propaganda

Synonyms

STRONGEST

disinformation hype indoctrination publicity

STRONG

advertising agitprop announcement brainwashing doctrine evangelism handout hogwash implantation inculcation promotion promulgation proselytism publication

Antonyms

WEAK

truth

Example Sentences

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Like Orwellian newspeak, they instill nonsense like pregnant men and an existential climate apocalypse until even Bill Gates calls bull hockey.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pushkin called the bill “political rubbish” and compared it to the book “1984,” George Orwell’s classic chilling tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak.”

From Seattle Times

Such language is right-wing newspeak for a second Civil War.

From Salon

Fox News' slogans and catch-phrases such as "Fair & Balanced", "Real News. Real Honest Opinion", and "We Report. You Decide" are Orwellian newspeak; Fox News is doing exactly the opposite.

From Salon

Their Orwellian newspeak version of "freedom, liberty and individual rights" just means that people are free as long as they do what Republicans want.

From Salon

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