Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The sort of language used in advertisements, typified by bold claims and optimistic encouragement.
Etymologies
- ad + -speak (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Forgive the gauche adspeak, but: you are your own brand.”
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“We owe it to him and to ourselves to go back and take a good hard look at what he created out of the adspeak and hyperbole that passes for discourse in American life.”
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“And yes, it really is a bit of a greenspeak/adspeak buzzlingomutant, isn't it?”
“Live young," announces the Gallic-tinged voiceover, in what may be genuine broken English but is more likely another example of adspeak putting the mother tongue through the mangle.”
“Panelists debated the effectiveness of "having a conversation" with customers, adspeak for providing extensive details based on their interests.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adspeak’.
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Speak Now
We can thank Orwell's Newspeak for the combining form -speak.
geekspeak, leetspeak, textspeak, Fedspeak, lolspeak, artspeak, chatspeak, moonspeak, farspeak, adspeak, newspeak, Newspeak and 12 more...
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Australian
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
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