governmentese

noun

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  1. song and dance
  2. legalese
  3. bureaucratese
  4. psychobabble
Noun
  • Employees Only With a late license and a reputation for song and dance, this is a useful name to have in the address book.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The camera is liberated (via CGI) in the song and dance numbers, but everything else is filmed in a basic, boring fashion, the background melting into a dim, unfocused blur behind the actors.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 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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