How to Use doublespeak in a Sentence

doublespeak

noun
  • Wow, that is a load of doublespeak!
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The doublespeak also shows up in the first episode on the speakerphone call.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In its day, Mad would have rolled its googly eyes at the corporate doublespeak of its own death notice.
    — David Von Drehle, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
  • Hades, backed by a worker chorus, lays out his chilling rationale in a kind of doublespeak.
    — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But neighbors felt the process was tied up in bureaucratic doublespeak.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • But after a few trips over the path — one on its opening night and the others Wednesday morning and evening — the words felt like doublespeak.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Trumpian doublespeak is always evasive, even when accurate.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That’s the kind of corporate doublespeak that makes consumers feel cheated and disrespected.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Support from law enforcement and rubber stamping by regulators has been enabled, in part, by tepid doublespeak from politicians.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Landlord language has always been slippery and replete with doublespeak to soften the harsh reality of for-profit housing.
    — Curbed, 1 June 2022
  • But some of these same voices note that members of Macron’s own cabinet have undermined his message on Islam with comments that come across as doublespeak.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, if transgender clinical activists were transparent in the first place, exposing their doublespeak wouldn’t be necessary.
    — The Editors, National Review, 13 June 2024
  • Paxson tried concealing nothing and, sitting next to Forman, who has a doctorate in doublespeak, the contrast in candor was striking.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Tell me the truth Traditional corporate doublespeak is leaving Gen Z unimpressed, and for good reason.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • For those uninitiated in Washington doublespeak, earmarks are back.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
  • What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Notwithstanding that doublespeak, the numbers certainly speak for themselves.
    — Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Camp suits Trump’s larger rhetorical style, which uses jokes and doublespeak to advance an agenda that many Americans find objectionable when stated in plain language.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The weariness and the wariness, for that matter, tend to be spawned by the hard-to-fathom doublespeak and the inability of anyone with gravitas in Washington to say something that counters the new wisdom.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Members left Mayor Jacob Frey twisting in the wind when the riots started and used doublespeak to justify their stupid statements that started everything.
    — Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • His flacks and surrogates hand out scraps of information grudgingly, infrequently, and beclouded by fragrant eructations of doublespeak.
    — Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
  • This is not just about Neil Portnow and not just about the Recording Academy, but about the culture in the music and entertainment industry and its doublespeak about rape and abuse.
    — EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This distinction between prioritization and rationing may seem technical, or like doublespeak.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Recently, a new development team won the job of carrying out a $300 million salvage plan, though its future remains shrouded in excitable real-estate doublespeak.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In the same doublespeak, Exxon Mobil promised reductions of flaring and methane emissions while planning to triple production in the Permian Basin.
    — Sheila Thorne, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Paradoxical doublespeak in Hong Kong today occurs not only as a sprinkling of isolated incidents, but is deeply existential.
    — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Though its website is clogged with business-to-business doublespeak, if Autobidder's overall behavior at that battery farm is any indication, the model itself is pretty straightforward.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2020
  • This kind of anti-intellectual, cynical doublespeak is terrible for our country, and Facebook, as the world's largest arbiter of information, is obligated to do something about it.
    — Jack Moore, GQ, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Augustus and Tiberius were dedicated to Rome’s imperial doublespeak, paying lip service to the republic while ruling as emperors.
    — Dana Vachon, Slate Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
  • The doublespeak—overturning an election to ensure the integrity of the electoral process—echoed that of another era, in which secessionists talked about dissolving the Union in order to preserve the integrity of the Founders’ vision.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021

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