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• n  the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure

• He ordered the Civil Service to stop talking what he termed "officialese.
• One quick look showed the Frank house to be in "an extreme state of decay," and disclosedas health-department officialese put ita backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with .
• They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell.