Doublespeak words/phrases

[unknown]

I need to come up with some doublespeak words or phrases such as
homeless people - residentally challenged
potholes in roads - pavement deficiencies
Any examples would be helpful.

[Tdol]

ugly- aesthetically challenged
bald- folically challenged

[MikeNewYork]

I need to come up with some doublespeak words or phrases such as
homeless people - residentally challenged
potholes in roads - pavement deficiencies
Any examples would be helpful.

short = vertically challenged
housewife = domestic engineer
disabled = differently-abled
blind = visually challenged

[Ouisch]

At a local hospital, patients don't "die" - they "fail to reach their wellness potential."

[boothling]

area denial munitions - landmines
operational exhaustion - shell shock
collateral damage - hitting something that isn't the target
enemy combatant - prisoner with no legal rights
transfer tube - body bag
extraordinary rendition - kidnap

[Humble]

Hi, Unknown,
I have never heard the word doublespeak. The dictionary says it means demagogy. Your question is not quite clear. Will this humorous one do?
Dead men don't talk. -
Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
Cheers

[rewboss]

"Doublespeak" was inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984. In it, he envisioned a society in which the State controlled people very closely using various methods. One of those methods was manipulating language by inventing a language called "Newspeak", a stripped-down version of English which would make certain ideas impossible to talk about. "Doublethink" is believing two contradictory things at the same time. "Doublespeak", a word never used by Orwell, is thus a portmanteau.

downsizing -- firing a lot of people
pacify -- subdue by force (in one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, one soldier complains that when you pacify certain people, they pacify you right back)

[RobbieCook]

A very thin person could be called "horizontally challenged".

[Tdol]

Deferred success = fail an exam or course