[This word comes from George Orwell’s novel, 1984.] The American Petroleum Institute established, in an admirable flourish of newspeak, a lobbying organization called the Global Climate Coalition. It was joined by trade associations including the coal, electric grid and automobile industries. (Nathaniel Rich, “Losing Earth,” The New York Times, 08/01/2018.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for misinformation, propaganda, double-talk, half-truth, deception, misleading, ambiguous, or falsehood
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