journalese
English
Noun
journalese (countable and uncountable, plural journaleses)
- A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language and clipped syntax.
- Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press:
- We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that.
- Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press:
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