deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
"the welfare state brought its own newspeak"
Alternative spelling of newspeak
Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.
The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.