Weasel Words: The Dictionary of American Doublespeak
Weasel Words: The colorful words that narrow the range of thought, inflate language, avoid responsibility, alleviate the discomfort of a waffling speaker, make the bad sound good, are at variance with the real or purported meaning, are a misnomer, euphemism, evasion, or are simply delightful forms of flim-flam identified by the two distortion detectives.\ From A to Z––this hard-hitting, politically savvy dictionary takes on all those American evasions, put-on-holds, distortions,...
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An A-Z dictionary of almost 1200 terms that drive you mad in the "spinning" world of the media, government, business, diplomacy, and the general day-to-day business of living and working
\ From the Publisher"It skewers politicians and journalists, military leaders and academics, for filling - or as the dictionary might have it, ‘cross-pollinating’ - their speech with phrases that mean nothing....One thing is for sure: anyone who reads 'Weasel Words' will find himself well-equipped to avoid clichés like the plague."\ \
