"doublespeak" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.",
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          "text": "The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.",
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          "ref": "1976, Brent D. Ruben, “The Coming of the Information Age”, in Brent D. Ruben, editor, Information and Behavior, page 7",
          "text": "The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a \"garbage collector\" turned \"sanitary engineer\" or a \"strike\" turned \"work stoppage.\"",
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          "word": "double talk"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "雙言巧語"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shuāngyánqiǎoyǔ",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "双言巧语"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "kaksoispuhe"
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          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
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          "word": "double discours"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "diglossía",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "διγλωσσία"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "mellébeszélés"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "kettős beszéd"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
          "word": "doble lenguaje"
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          "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "word": "雙言巧語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shuāngyánqiǎoyǔ",
      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
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      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "word": "kaksoispuhe"
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      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "word": "διγλωσσία"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "word": "mellébeszélés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "word": "kettős beszéd"
    },
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      "sense": "language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning",
      "word": "doble lenguaje"
    },
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