doublespeak
noun
dou·ble·speak
ˈdə-bəl-ˌspēk 
: language used to deceive usually through concealment or misrepresentation of truth
also
: gobbledygook
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Trumpian doublespeak is always evasive, even when accurate.
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Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Except the menace behind all of the exchanges involving a slow death by a thousand executive-order cuts, or how surveillance and harassment is a daily occurrence, or the manner of doublespeak used to tarnish them as both journalists and citizens, is ever-present.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
This was especially the case last week, when a mountain of euphemistic slop and doublespeak was dumped on news consumers, all to promote narratives rather than simply telling the story.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 6 July 2025
The lifestyle doublespeak people used to survive under successive dictatorships in Eastern Europe came a little more easily to Poles, who had practiced it before.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
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Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Except the menace behind all of the exchanges involving a slow death by a thousand executive-order cuts, or how surveillance and harassment is a daily occurrence, or the manner of doublespeak used to tarnish them as both journalists and citizens, is ever-present.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
This was especially the case last week, when a mountain of euphemistic slop and doublespeak was dumped on news consumers, all to promote narratives rather than simply telling the story.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 6 July 2025
The lifestyle doublespeak people used to survive under successive dictatorships in Eastern Europe came a little more easily to Poles, who had practiced it before.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for doublespeak
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“Doublespeak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doublespeak. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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