Pentagonese

noun

Definition of Pentagonesenext
as in governmentese

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  1. legalese
  2. bureaucratese
  3. psychobabble
  4. song and dance
Noun
  • California’s 176-page voter guide is dense with ballot measure legalese, policy debates and obscure candidates for statewide office.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Commercial cases are more complex, typically involving hundreds of pages of appraisals and legalese from the appellant.
    — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of legalese
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Definition of bureaucratese
Noun
  • The overly earnest character speaks in a hilariously cringey Gen Z self-help psychobabble that continuously grates on Enrique’s nerves.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Definition of psychobabble
Noun
  • Rob Lowe did an infamously bad song and dance number at the 1989 Oscars.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Cruise and Fallon then broke out into song and dance in their seats.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of song and dance
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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