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doubleplusungood

1. Alternative spelling of double-plus-ungood.
   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, pages 42–43:

     On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of ‘The Times’ leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak. He unrolled the message that he had set aside earlier. It ran: / times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling / In Oldspeak (or standard English) this might be rendered: / The reporting of Big Brother’s Order for the Day in ‘The Times’ of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-existent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.

   • 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet‎:

     So words like great, excellent and horrible are rendered redundant in Newspeak, replaced by “plusgood”, “doubleplusgood” and “doubleplusungood” respectively.

   • 2021 January 16, Donald Clarke, “You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’”, in The Irish Times‎:

     [see title]