1. deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
Usage: from George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’

Examples

• The politician’s newspeak made it impossible to understand his actual position on the issue.
• Corporate newspeak turned ‘layoffs’ into ‘rightsizing’ and ‘workforce optimization.’
• The government’s newspeak described the invasion as a ‘special military operation.’
• Critics accused the administration of using newspeak to hide the true costs of the program.
• The company’s newspeak manual instructed employees to call problems ‘opportunities for improvement.’
• Orwell warned that newspeak would eventually make independent thought impossible.
• The press conference was full of newspeak that obscured rather than clarified the facts.