Meaning of Orwellesque | Babel Free

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Synonym of Orwellian.

Examples

“Their composite picture of the socialist state was distinctly Orwellesque: A system of slavery and of servitude...”

“You may remember Brazil, Terry Gilliam's Orwellesque parable that only major amounts of protest saved from permanent butchery by the studio.”

“The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.”

“When a faculty member mentioned this trend openly, the dean of the School of Education had exclaimed in an Orwellesque manner, “Don't use that phrase! Say rather that we are extending the opportunity.””

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