doublespeak

Meaning

Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

Synonyms

demagogy

double bind

Etymology

From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.