Word: jargonizing
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...Never," said an eminent professor of English composition in recommending Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's famous essay denouncing jargon. "Never has cheap English been more cleverly shown...
Oratory: "A good House of Commons style is much applauded and . . . is a high accomplishment. But it abounds in jargon . . . consecrated phrases and sentences which mean nothing but occupy the time while the House is emptying or filling. . . . 'Mr. Speaker, Sir, the honourable member who has just sat down has charged my Right Honourable friend, the President of the Board of Trade, with having misrepresented the speech which the honourable and learned gentleman, the member for Colne, made earlier in debate. Sir, as I shall presently prove, the honourable member himself is guilty of misrepresenting the .speech...
...often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans on the book's jacket, ranges from the masterly English of Galapagos and Jungle Nights, to sloppy jargon. In the midst of Author Beebe's spells, one is continually jerked up by the wish that, on his present trawling trip to Galapagos, he may lose the word "adumbrate" forever overboard...
...bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked up in some book or read in the newspapers. One is repeatedly told that the badinage is entirely "point-device." Writer Snaith patches his wretched English with motley tatters of French. But the thrill's the thing; shut your eyes...
...Indeed, the objector may speak more bluntly and declare that the judges are simply partisans of certain economic interests and that their use of the jargon of precedent and theory is so much camouflage in the shadow of which matters of choice take on the delusive appearance of inevitability. No student would care to deny the force of these views...