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Definition of newspeak noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

newspeak

noun

/ˈnjuːspiːk/

/ˈnuːspiːk/

[uncountable]

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language that is not clear or honest, for example the language that is used in political propaganda
Word Origin1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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