governmentese

[guhv-ern-muhn-teez, -tees, -er-muhn-]

noun

complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.

Also, gov·ern·men·tal·ese

[guhv-ern-men-tl-eez, -ees, guhv-er-] .

Origin:
government + -ese

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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