Explore Doublespeak through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like evasion or equivocation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Doublespeak in a sentence
Doublespeak meaning
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
Synonyms of Doublespeak
Using Doublespeak
- The main meaning on this page is: Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
- Useful related words include: evasion, equivocation.
- In the example corpus, doublespeak often appears in combinations such as: doublespeak is, of doublespeak, counter doublespeak.
Context around Doublespeak
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doublespeak
- In this selection, "doublespeak" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, counter, orwellian, main, having, educating and award stand out and add context to how "doublespeak" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and how doublespeak is deliberately and award main doublespeak is often. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doublespeak" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doublespeak
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is, of course, Orwellian doublespeak. (6 words)
More pure form doublespeak, with Chinese characteristics. (7 words)
Read his comments again, nothing but doublespeak. (7 words)
Meanwhile, the protests against CAB/CAA in the past as well as present has brought into the open the BJP’s doublespeak, as it claims to be a party advocating ‘one nation one law’, but has announced arbitrary exceptions for several states. (42 words)
He served as editor of its second publication, Teaching about Doublespeak (1976),which carried forward the Committee's charge to inform teachers of ways of teaching students how to recognize and combat language designed to mislead and misinform. (38 words)
Similarly, Herman's theory of doublespeak having an inherent nature to be manipulative and Chomsky's theory of 'dichotomization' relates directly to the practice of doublespeak and how doublespeak is deliberately deceptive in nature. (34 words)
What is with this Orwellian doublespeak "as more people sought better working conditions " that accompanies these articles about labor conditions? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Similarly, Herman's theory of doublespeak having an inherent nature to be manipulative and Chomsky's theory of 'dichotomization' relates directly to the practice of doublespeak and how doublespeak is deliberately deceptive in nature.
Education against doublespeak Educating students has been suggested by experts to be one of the ways to counter doublespeak.
The Doublespeak Award main Doublespeak is often used by politicians for the advancement of their agenda.
More pure form doublespeak, with Chinese characteristics.
Nothing highlights the hypocrisy and doublespeak of the Shiv Sena, the principal opposition party in the state, more vividly than this.
One lesser-known and rather curious example of this new doublespeak is playing out, once again centered on Xinjiang, the Uyghur region in westernmost China.
What is with this Orwellian doublespeak "as more people sought better working conditions " that accompanies these articles about labor conditions?
Our duplicity, hypocrisy and doublespeak threaten not just the present (theirs and ours) but chillingly the future.
Read his comments again, nothing but doublespeak.
This is, of course, Orwellian doublespeak.
Meanwhile, the protests against CAB/CAA in the past as well as present has brought into the open the BJP’s doublespeak, as it claims to be a party advocating ‘one nation one law’, but has announced arbitrary exceptions for several states.
Experience says she will use her own form of Brexit doublespeak for as long as she can get away with it.
As it was formulated to educate the public on how to counter doublespeak via education, its aim was to reach the widest possible audience of citizens.
Bureaucracies frequently spawn euphemisms of a more deliberate nature, doublespeak expressions.
Doublespeak: From "Revenue Enhancement" to "Terminal Living": How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You.
Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language. citation Herman 1992.
Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.
Educating students in the English language is important to help them identify how doublespeak is being used to mislead and conceal information.
He served as editor of its second publication, Teaching about Doublespeak (1976),which carried forward the Committee's charge to inform teachers of ways of teaching students how to recognize and combat language designed to mislead and misinform.
He was also the founder of the Intensify/Downplay pattern that has been widely used to identify instances of Doublespeak being used.
Common combinations with doublespeak
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- doublespeak is 7×
- of doublespeak 6×
- counter doublespeak 3×
- doublespeak and 2×
- how doublespeak 2×
- and doublespeak 2×
- orwellian doublespeak 2×
- doublespeak as 2×
- public doublespeak 2×
- doublespeak which 2×