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Orwellian
[ awr-wel-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
Word History and Origins
Origin of Orwellian1
Example Sentences
Beers, who was surprised by the win, said the world “seems to become slightly more Orwellian with each passing day.”
As adjectives go, “Orwellian” tends to be prematurely invoked — and hyperbolically, if often in good faith.
Boyer said it speaks to a kind of “Orwellian absurdity” that “these words can only have one meaning, and it’s the meaning that they would like to politicize.”
In Trump’s trademark Orwellian spin, his executive order weaponizing the DOJ was titled, “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
In a matter of hours, an American strongman had achieved the long-held dream of the far right, to toss the wave of liberations of the Long Sixties down an Orwellian memory hole … .
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