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Orwellesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From Orwell + -esque.

Meanings

1. Synonym of Orwellian.
   • You may remember Brazil, Terry Gilliam's Orwellesque parable that only major amounts of protest saved from permanent butchery by the studio. 2007, Royal S. Brown, Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine, page 134:
   • Their composite picture of the socialist state was distinctly Orwellesque: A system of slavery and of servitude... 1994, Morris Slavin, Boris Blick, Louis Patsouras, Rebels against the old order: essays in honor of Morris Slavin:
   • 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. 2011, L. Donskis, Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging:
   • 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.” 2015, Bradley J. Birzer, Russell Kirk: American Conservative:

Forms

Synonyms

Orwellian · Orwellian · draconian