politicianese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In journalese and politicianese every warning is grave, every destruction wanton, every feeling sensibly felt[…]"
- "This is fine, of course, but somewhat vague, illusory and politicianese."
- "The statement said the governor will answer only “valid criticisms,” during the campaign. Political Notes doesn’t know what that means in French or Chinese, but in Politicianese it means: “There simply can’t be any valid criticism against our man so we ain’t answering nuttin’.”"
- "“The name is not unfamiliar,” Chance said, “but . . .” He shook his head. Not unfamiliar. You gotta love it when they speak politicianese."
- "Listening to their meetings is almost never pleasant: it generates boredom and sleepiness. Their language is contorted and ambiguous: it’s the so-called “politicianese”.[…]This is how politicianese (politichese in Italian) came about, almost a language in itself, made from indirect allusions, reassuring vagueness, technicalities difficult to understand...."
- "He later defended this kind of work: ‘A slogan, a poster with just a few words (hard words) is worth a thousand polished, hypocritical messages in politicianese’ (Bossi, in Iacopini and Bianchi 1994: vii)."
Etymology
From politician + -ese.