doublespeak
doub·les·peak
noun
1.
any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
Origin
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.
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