governmentese

noun

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  1. song and dance
  2. legalese
  3. bureaucratese
  4. psychobabble
Noun
  • Though the story takes place in the fantastical world of Oz, Scott says the most successful musicals always have their moments of song and dance grounded in a sense of reality.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye star as Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, a famous song and dance team who rally their fellow Army veterans to put on a Christmastime show to help save a struggling resort owned by their former boss, Gen. Thomas F. Waverly (Dean Jagger).
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of 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
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