How to Use doublespeak in a Sentence

doublespeak

noun

• The doublespeak also shows up in the first episode on the speakerphone call.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• But after a few trips over the path — one on its opening night and the others Wednesday morning and evening — the words felt like doublespeak.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
• In its day, Mad would have rolled its googly eyes at the corporate doublespeak of its own death notice.
  — David Von Drehle, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• Hades, backed by a worker chorus, lays out his chilling rationale in a kind of doublespeak.
  — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
• What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?
  — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 19 Sep. 2017
• But some of these same voices note that members of Macron’s own cabinet have undermined his message on Islam with comments that come across as doublespeak.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2020
• But there is also a corollary at play to the traditional Orwellianism: a kind of emotional doublespeak.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Paxson tried concealing nothing and, sitting next to Forman, who has a doctorate in doublespeak, the contrast in candor was striking.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
• Members left Mayor Jacob Frey twisting in the wind when the riots started and used doublespeak to justify their stupid statements that started everything.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• The doublespeak—overturning an election to ensure the integrity of the electoral process—echoed that of another era, in which secessionists talked about dissolving the Union in order to preserve the integrity of the Founders’ vision.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Landlord language has always been slippery and replete with doublespeak to soften the harsh reality of for-profit housing.
  — Curbed, 1 June 2022
• Support from law enforcement and rubber stamping by regulators has been enabled, in part, by tepid doublespeak from politicians.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2019
• And the UC Berkeley political science professor has studied doublespeak for a decade.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• That happier state of affairs was achieved by his administration’s unambiguous embrace of the U.S.–Israel alliance and dismantling of the diplomatic doublespeak that kept Israel in a gray area for so long.
  — Victoria Coates, National Review, 14 May 2021
• Camp suits Trump’s larger rhetorical style, which uses jokes and doublespeak to advance an agenda that many Americans find objectionable when stated in plain language.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
• The novel picks up just as Nigeria — or the author’s stand-in for his home country — is gearing up to celebrate its annual Festival of the People of Happiness, yet another example of official doublespeak.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• But in President Trump’s case, that retention triggered an unprecedented raid on the home of a former president, rationalized with a thicket of partisan doublespeak.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
• This kind of anti-intellectual, cynical doublespeak is terrible for our country, and Facebook, as the world's largest arbiter of information, is obligated to do something about it.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 22 Jan. 2018
• Despite Beijing’s doublespeak, the administration should continue to engage the PRC.
  — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2022
• Though its website is clogged with business-to-business doublespeak, if Autobidder's overall behavior at that battery farm is any indication, the model itself is pretty straightforward.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2020
• For those uninitiated in Washington doublespeak, earmarks are back.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Augustus and Tiberius were dedicated to Rome’s imperial doublespeak, paying lip service to the republic while ruling as emperors.
  — Dana Vachon, Slate Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• Paradoxical doublespeak in Hong Kong today occurs not only as a sprinkling of isolated incidents, but is deeply existential.
  — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
• The aftermath is chaotic: media sensationalism and political doublespeak have done their work.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• His flacks and surrogates hand out scraps of information grudgingly, infrequently, and beclouded by fragrant eructations of doublespeak.
  — Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
• The novel, published in 1949, conjured up a bleak vision of an authoritarian society where propaganda has replaced reality and doublespeak has ousted truth.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2017
• Bruce Haynes, founding partner of the bipartisan Purple Strategies consulting firm, calls this typical political doublespeak.
  — Salena Zito, Twin Cities, 10 May 2017
• The book's central conceit—an island where concepts intermittently disappear from society's collective understanding—has proved irresistible to American critics, who hail the novel's relevance in a time of pervasive doublespeak and gaslighting.
  — Wired, 20 Aug. 2019
• This distinction between prioritization and rationing may seem technical, or like doublespeak.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2020
• Victory was what counted, power, muscularity, doublespeak if necessary.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024