officialese
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Noun[edit]
officialese (countable and uncountable, plural officialeses)
- The typical language of officials or official documents; legalistic and pompous language. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 263:
- These were men, the chronicler continued, who ‘spoke pleasantly’, in the smooth officialese that most of Henry's counsellors were accustomed to deploy […]
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bureaucratese — see bureaucratese