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Orwell
[ awr-wel, -wuhl ]
noun
- George Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.
Orwell
/ ˈɔːwəl; ɔːˈwɛlɪən; -wɛl /
noun
- OrwellGeorge19031950MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: essayist George, real name Eric Arthur Blair. 1903–50, English novelist and essayist, born in India. He is notable for his social criticism, as in The Road to Wigan Pier (1932); his account of his experiences of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia (1938); and his satirical novels Animal Farm (1945), an allegory on the Russian Revolution, and 1984 (1949), in which he depicts an authoritarian state of the future
Derived Forms
- Orwellian, adjective
Example Sentences
It doesn’t, of course, because Trump’s commitment to “free speech” has long been fraudulent doublespeak, to borrow once more from Orwell, even as the media frequently indulges that framing.
Thanks to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a name George Orwell would have been proud to dream up, the country now finds itself mired in a legal morass that could last years.
There is good reason why George Orwell coined the phrase "memory hole" in "1984."
Thinkers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt addressed this question decades ago, noting that the erosion of privacy is a hallmark of exploitative systems — such as plantation slavery, totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and patriarchy.
Garfield is recognized alongside several actors, including Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott and Tom Hardy, for lending their talents to Audible’s original adaptation “George Orwell’s 1984.”
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