Often confused with totalitarian, Orwellian describes deceptive and manipulative use of the English language.
An asshole political leader describing something as Orwellian, when what they mean is totalitarian, is in itself Orwellian.
by FrenchOfFry June 11, 2019
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After the Reagan tax cuts of 1981, revenues (in constant dollars) did not reach 1981 levels again until 1985. Because irresponsible borrowing to give tax cuts mainly for the wealthy can’t be sold on face value to the Public, the Orwellian Right conveniently ignored the drop in real revenues and redefined the rebound in revenues as “proof” of a Revenue Boom created by the 1981 tax cuts. In reality revenues rose because of natural growth in the economy, inflation, increased defense spending, and two massive Reagan-era take hikes. In the Orwellian world, hundreds of billions in revenue lost over 4 years = a revenue boom.
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Why dwell on your sad childhood memories? Just have a orwellian historian take your unhappy pictures and home movies and have them destroyed. Then you block them out of your mind for good.
by Stephan Smolka January 12, 2009
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Lieutenant: My commander just seized my phone - apparently he saw that I was born in Colorado and considered that probably cause to investigate me for dealing drugs.
Captain: Man, once he finds your Tinder messages he'll charge you with conduct unbecoming. I can't wait to get out of this orwellian nightmare.
Captain: Man, once he finds your Tinder messages he'll charge you with conduct unbecoming. I can't wait to get out of this orwellian nightmare.
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The orwellian amerikan constitution replaced the original constitution adopted during trumps reign and became the new norm where censorship was ok as long as Facebook or Twitter did it adhering to the new standards for freedom of speech and other constitutional rights largely resembling the dystopia book 1984
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