Similar words: machiavellian, norwegian, stairwell, alliance, dalliance, dwelling, swelling, brilliant. Meaning: adj. of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state).
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1. Now she was a bit player in my Orwellian nightmare.
2. But this was Orwellian doublethink.
3. There is something almost Orwellian ... it's almost Kafkaesque.
4. Libyans found themselves in an Orwellian nightmare where even small utterances of protest could lead to disappearances, prolonged incarceration without any form of legal redress and torture.
5. Walker's critics are amusingly Orwellian. They liken the crowd in Madison to the ones in Tunisia and claim to be fighting for democracy.
6. I instantly thought of the Orwellian newspeak at my own Manhattan school where achievement tests were the order of the day.sentence dictionary
7. On the other (Orwellian) hand, the internet is the nearest thing to a perfect surveillance machine the world has ever seen.
8. So in Orwellian fashion , the buyout firms decided to change their moniker.
9. Then that famous Orwellian coda. "Good prose is like a window pane."
10. Republicans claim, in Orwellian fashion, that Obama's millionaire tax is 'class war'.
11. New York's Catholic archbishop Timothy Dolan, who called the legal change "Orwellian social engineering" will not be speaking out this Sunday.
12. It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).
13. Even the author's pseudonym (his real name being Eric Arthur Blair) became a chilling adjective: "Orwellian" is applied to any characteristic display of totalitarian might.
14. About their own camps, by contrast, the Soviet Union was able to exercise a sustained Orwellian denial.
15. The cult of sport sometimes seems to take on the quality of an Orwellian nightmare.
16. THE Syrian government's attempts to conceal the extent of the crackdown in the country have taken on an Orwellian quality.
17. However, the idea that any government would monitor its citizens' brains for honesty will doubtless strike even the least paranoid person as rather terrifyingly Orwellian.
18. The thought of grinning politicians telling people how happy they are is truly Orwellian.
19. Oh, he also fired the real founder and, in an Orwellian turn, pretends the guy never existed in press interviews.
20. None of these safeguards exist in China, raising the very real prospect of an Orwellian society - one in which citizens are monitored in permanence, including in their private life.
21. And Amazon did little to gain user's trust with an ironically Orwellian intrusion of owners' Kindle devices in order to delete copies of 1984 and Animal Farm.
22. And so, a lot of people see this as a sort of ... or create a scenario, an Orwellian scenario, a Big Brother type scenario but I don't concur.
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