Words and phrases that have a meaning related to officialese: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
bureaucratese, officialdom, archaisms, journalese, jargons, infelicities, lexis, bumf, gobbledegook, commonplaces, bafflegab, babu, tautologies, circumlocution, gobbledygook, nomenclatures, sarcasms, newspeak, loanwords, diphthong, indirectness, homophones, past participle, officiousness, waffly, inconsequentiality, answerability, prolixity, monosyllables, ungrammatically, flummery, gesticulation, anodyne, hyperboles, pompousness, bodge, mofussil, wastepaper basket, pedantry, purana, drivelling, jugglery, gobbets, delphic, hotchpotch, sibilants, panegyrics, wordiness, obfuscation, flunkey, solecism, swearword, vagary, grubbiness, punctiliousness, dilatoriness, bureaucracy, prevarication, wishfulness, impassivity, tactlessness, fustiness, bureacracy, prepositional phrase, buncombe, doublespeak, abstract noun, declarative sentence, argot, neologisms, demotic, pushtu, mot juste, wallah, pronounciation, tildes, pusillanimity, cracy, terminologies, participles, acerbity, shapelessness, subjunctive, apercus, terseness, cacophonic, putrescence, imposer, orotund, bahasa, turgidity, assonance, apparat, barbarisms, diffidence, bureaucrats, memsahib, burra, pithiness, bakra, glottal, euphemism, colonialism, diplomacy, imperialism, jargon, juggernaut, jurisprudence, legalism, mentality, officialism, parlance, policymaking, politics, socialism, terminology, aesthetics, architects, archives, authorities
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Also try:expressive style, style
— Adjectives for officialese: soviet, ponderous, british, such, bureaucratic, dry, military, german, english, modern, contemporary, more...
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