Pentagonese

noun

Definition of Pentagonesenext
as in governmentese

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  1. legalese
  2. bureaucratese
  3. psychobabble
  4. song and dance
Noun
  • The legalese can be daunting, and insurance companies have a team of lawyers at their disposal.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • To help parse the legalese, Lex Machina has developed a set of rules—a sort of legal grammar for the machine.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2013
Definition of legalese
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Definition of bureaucratese
Noun
  • This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
Definition of psychobabble
Noun
  • Lee–one of the rare female religious heads at the time– and her followers worshipped through exuberant song and dance.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Lee’s followers deemed her the female Jesus Christ, and her worshippers prayed through song and dance, hence the fitting musical genre.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of song and dance
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