Associations to the word «Doublespeak»

Wiktionary

DOUBLESPEAK, noun. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Typically used by governments or large institutions.

Dictionary definition

DOUBLESPEAK, noun. Any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope