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11 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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