0 the type of language, often used in government documents, that is formal and often difficult to understand
The pompous impersonality of officialese also, of course, allows the civil servant to hide behind the monolithic structure of his organisation.
In such a situation the tendency for it to fossilize into ritualized officialese is increased because the countervailing influences of less formal varieties of the language are not so strong.
I am afraid, however, that it was a bit of officialese in that we are limiting ourselves to a reply which simply confirms past events.
It may sound like officialese, but what it points to is more state control.
He said that it was in an obscure officialese, a special language.
That would be so, but for the preceding paragraphs, because they are the most wonderful officialese attempt to resist any of our reasonable requests.
It was given in that officialese which is not meant to give any information at all, but to provide a certain pabulum of words.
It is expressed in perfect "officialese".
