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Journalese   /dʒˌərnəlˈiz/   Listen
Journalese

noun
1.
The style in which newspapers are written.





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"Journalese" Quotes from Famous Books



... an unknown hand threw in a copy of a Kansas paper containing some sort of an interview with Harvey, who had evidently fallen in with an enterprising reporter, telegraphed on from Boston. The joyful journalese revealed that it was beyond question their boy, and it soothed Mrs. Cheyne for a while. Her one word "hurry" was conveyed by the crews to the engineers at Nickerson, Topeka, and Marceline, where the grades ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling


Words linked to "Journalese" :   expressive style, sensationalism, style, luridness


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