facecrime
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It's getting hard to keep track of all the blue-check marks who called for the death of these kids."
- "Others spoke of “facecrimes” with which white, male professors were now being charged, ..."
- "The Oak was trying, with small success, not to commit what George Orwell would have called a facecrime."
Etymology
From face + crime. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to the act of having a facial expression indicating an unacceptable state of mind.