ORWELLIAN meaning: Totalitarian control through propaganda, surveillance

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▸ adjective: Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression.

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utopian, idyllic, idealistic, perfect, blissful

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dystopian, totalitarian, authoritarian, oligarchic, monarchical, more...

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