doublespeak

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. uncountable
    — The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.

词源

From 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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