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doublespeak

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dou·ble·speak  (dbl-spk)
n.
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Noun1.doublespeak - any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
equivocation, evasion - a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth


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While the bill, which in the great tradition of congressional doublespeak is called "The Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act" (H.
Russo posed the same question to Cohen, only to have Cohen lead him through dense thickets of doublespeak.
 
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