Definitions for Orwellian

Orwellian Or·well·i·an

Spelling: [awr-wel-ee-uh n]
IPA: /ɔrˈwɛl i ən/

Orwellian is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in Orwellian (aeillnorw).

Definitions for Orwellian

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  1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).

Origin of Orwellian

1945-50; G. Orwell + -ian

Examples for Orwellian

There has been an almost Orwellian artfulness in the way need-blind admissions policies are sold.

But while another bureaucracy may not be the answer (even the name sounds Orwellian), oversight is clearly needed.

Clive Irving on the Orwellian mass-surveillance data center rising in the Utah desert.

Venezuelans are accustomed to their government using Orwellian language.

It is probably necessary to add that this is not an Orwellian satire or a right-wing fantasy: This school actually exists.

No one called them “attractions” anymore—all that old Orwellian Disneyspeak had been abolished.

Orwellian, Malthusian, barbarous, depraved…I think you get me.

The ghost of George Orwell may be conjured too readily and too often, these days, but this truly is Orwellian.

Your chapter, “Subjective Fear” highlights how Orwellian government can be in it circular word games.

Two weeks ago, activists launched a petition asking the tech giant that once warned of an Orwellian future to reconsider the ban.

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