The word 'doublespeak' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to language that deliberately obscures, disguises, or distorts the meaning of words to manipulate or deceive people. One example of doublespeak would be a politician saying, "We must make deep cuts to essential services in order to achieve economic stability." This phrase may seem reasonable, but it is actually doublespeak for cutting funding for important programs and services.
An intellectual with a near-liturgical respect for words, he distrusts mass-media patness almost as keenly as he hated Communist doublespeak.
In Germany, France and Britain right-wing insurgent parties are nipping at the heels of governments, denouncing them as has-beens trafficking in cant and doublespeak.
She dubbed this season an exploration of exploration, doublespeak for a collection that mashed together Romany and Balkan styles as if, somehow, reflecting the turbulent socioeconomic climate of Europe circa right now.
His reporting helped make the drone issue part of the confirmation hearings, leading to this statement on Thursday to the Senate Intelligence Committee from Mr. Brennan, which sounded like a parody of Washington doublespeak: "What we need to do is optimize transparency on these issues, but at the same time, optimize secrecy and the protection of our national security".
That's not doublespeak for a weak collection.
The veritable circus of helping students circumnavigate the specific deadlines and doublespeak that characterize the typical scholarship contest — where else should you find self-professed headhunters but on a carnival midway?
Just under 1,500 will be sold privately: the rest will be "affordable", which in the doublespeak of housing means unaffordable.
This is Microsoft at its doublespeak best.To explain just how "closed" or "proprietary" Windows is, let's compare it with the Java technology, in which the source code can be licensed and downloaded for evaluation; the specifications or blueprints are freely available; anyone can voice an opinion to influence changes to the technology.
In that way, his lies at home feed his abuses abroad.Stop spinningIn Russia such doublespeak recalls the days of the Soviet Union when Pravda claimed to tell the truth.
A DENSE cloud of diplomatic doublespeak hangs over the turbid waters of the Mekong.
Confident, however, in the backing of countries such as China and Russia, President Mahinda Rajapaksa can defy what he terms Western "doublespeak".
