"1984-ish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From 1984 + -ish, a reference to the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.",
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      "form": "more 1984-ish",
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      "form": "most 1984-ish",
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          "ref": "2000, G. R. Evans, Martyn Percy, Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age, page 128:",
          "text": "I have no idea what this 1984-ish-sounding organization actually does, though I suspect it has something to do with industrial processes.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Jerome Sala, What if someone were listening? Contemporary poetry and the problem of popularity, page 140:",
          "text": "The poems were then posted on a Library of Congress website, and high school principals were encouraged in the slightly 1984-ish task of reading them over their loud speakers each morning at the beginning of the school day.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Charles Forbin, The Diaries of Ay'esha: Trapped and Trained, page 171:",
          "text": "A truly 1984-ish paradox. What had gone down the memory hole?",
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          "ref": "2011, John E.B. Myers, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, page viii:",
          "text": "All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context.",
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        "Resembling or pertaining to a totalitarian society, especially one characterised by intensive surveillance of the population."
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        "(informal) Resembling or pertaining to a totalitarian society, especially one characterised by intensive surveillance of the population."
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        "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
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  "word": "1984-ish"
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          "ref": "2000, G. R. Evans, Martyn Percy, Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age, page 128:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jerome Sala, What if someone were listening? Contemporary poetry and the problem of popularity, page 140:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Charles Forbin, The Diaries of Ay'esha: Trapped and Trained, page 171:",
          "text": "A truly 1984-ish paradox. What had gone down the memory hole?",
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          "ref": "2011, John E.B. Myers, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, page viii:",
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