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DOUBLESPEAK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("doublespeak" is a kind of...):
equivocation; evasion (a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth)