governmentese

noun

Definition of governmentesenext
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  1. song and dance
  2. legalese
  3. bureaucratese
  4. psychobabble
Noun
  • Instead, we are given Gomez singing karaoke with a cowboy and Saldana bursting into song and dance during a random gala.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Every song and dance on Dancing With the Stars season 33 Many fans thought the low score was blatantly racist, and Parks alluded to as much in her post-show interviews.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of song and dance
Noun
  • Difficult Language The first thing that many readers will notice is that both of these documents are written, essentially, in legalese.
    John Werner, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The website may have high-minded ideals, but their termination agreements are full of hard-nosed legalese.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 18 May 2024
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
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