Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The style of writing often held to be characteristic of newspapers and magazines, distinguished by clichés, sensationalism, and triteness of thought.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A style of writing fit only for rapid newspaper work; a style abounding in pretentious words and sudden colloquialisms and making crude bids for popularity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the linguistic style in which newspapers are written.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
style ofwriting used in somenewspapers andmagazines , characterized bycliché ,hyperbolic language andclipped syntax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the style in which newspapers are written
Etymologies
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This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese').
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QUOTE ABOVE: This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese').
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This, of course, leads to that particular form of "journalese" in which a cricket-ball becomes a "leathern missile" and so forth.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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"journalese;" and as the picturesque reporter is a greater power in
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Hito 2009
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Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Hito 2009
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Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Hito 2009
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Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Hito 2009
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Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Hito 2009
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"Is sufficiently — er — journalese?" he interrupted suavely.
Local Color 2010
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