English Explanatory Dictionary

facecrime

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A facial expression considered unacceptable.

Word forms

facecrime facecrimes

Etymology

From face + crime. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to the act of having a facial expression indicating an unacceptable state of mind.

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