n 1 e 1 w 4 s 1 p 3 e 1 a 1 k 5
8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public
originFrom new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- weakens 14
- pawks 14
- knawes 13
- wakens 13
- weaken 13
- pawk 13
- pawnees 12
- pekans 12
- askew 12
- knawe 12
- swank 12
- waken 12