diplospeak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Diplomatic language; The careful use of euphemism and noncontroversial language to obscure points that might cause contention.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And he knows how to cut through the diplospeak: when Clinton politely asked Russia's Boris Yeltsin for his views on a Caspian Sea gas deal proposed by Chevron Oil."
- "The hard-driving Cushing carried the title of "American Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" — diplospeak for President Tyler's man on the spot."
- "Following his August 2007 talks with President Bush in Washington, Brown fell back on coded diplospeak in their joint press conference."
- "I defended our policy with journalists and critics, one night engaging in a “frank exchange of views”—to use the diplospeak I would later master as a U.S. ambassador —with Washington Post columnist Bob Kagan and New York Times columnist David Brooks on the merits of our approach."