bureaucratese

Though I can't help thinking that letter should be written in bureaucratese.

"I don't care what kind of bureaucratese they use for it.

She's learned to read between the lines of bureaucratese to see what's left unsaid.

A snippet of bureaucratese also made its way to the forefront.

They were also confined by a Russian language that was itself incarcerated in bureaucratese.

A series of internal memoranda that said the same thing in measured bureaucratese.

Such attacks are now enshrined in bureaucratese as regime lethal.

"If you read through the bureaucratese, you would come out thinking the tax cut should be deferred," one committee member said.

That same bureaucratese trips all too easily off President Bush's tongue.

They have been peppered with policy changes and letters written in clotted bureaucratese.

He told the speechwriters to translate them from bureaucratese.

The President also fogged his answers with esoteric, alphabet-soup bureaucratese.

Officialese or bureaucratese is a derogatory term for language that sounds official.

Lakin hadn't mentioned that they could also, as the bureaucratese went, give him a "terminal appointment."

But the tales seemed pumped up at times, even when told in the stilted bureaucratese favored by the Army.

Dry bureaucratese to describe a conflagration that nearly destroyed a colony before it was contained.

Peace would be catastrophic, the report said in deadpan bureaucratese, unless there was extensive planning to replace the many benefits of war.

Most major union decisions are made by commissioners who speak in obfuscatory bureaucratese, or at all-night meetings of national leaders.

In bureaucratese, however, granularity is "the state of being finely, even deliciously, detailed."

When I'm in a government office, I'm just grateful that a staff member speaks anything other than bureaucratese.

Give a BLS editor freedom from bureaucratese, and he could come up with the same study.

The certification is known as Etops, bureaucratese for extended-range twin-engine operations.

The report was straightforward, devoid of bureaucratese.

How many people live in "linguistic isolation" (bureaucratese for "non-English speakers")?

The prose is free from bureaucratese and, for a consensus statement, the report is remarkably forthright.