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• n  deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public
  the welfare state brought its own newspeak

• While Havel fiddles with the aparatchik newspeak in his absurdist dramas, Ivanek works in expletives and boorish cant.
• The first is that of the Orwellian mouthpiece the unquestioning apparatchik feeding the cowed masses their daily dose of newspeak.
• Poltical correctness is another name for the "newspeak" language mentioned in Orwell's 1984, which is a heavily modified shell of the former English language constantly subject to .

News & Articles

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• George Orwell's Landmark Novel '1984' Hits 64-Year Anniversary
  Big Brother. Thought-crime. Thought police. Room 101. Newspeak. These and other phrases derive from one notable piece of English fiction: Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  June 11, 2013 - The Christian Post

Quotes

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• George Orwell in Media Monitors Network
  The purpose of Newspeak,wrote Orwell, "was to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all, and Oldspeak [standard English] forgotten, a heretical thought: would be...
• Atrios in Slate
  ...held up the transfer tube euphemism as emblematic of the official secrecy surrounding the war: A contributor to Daily Kos called the term "grotesquely euphemizing," while Atrios called it a "bit of newspeak."