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Worldwide familiarity with the word "Orwellian" is proof of that influence. "Orwellian" is used as a pejorative adjective, to evoke totalitarian terror, the falsification of history by state-organised lying and, more loosely, any unpleasant example of repression or manipulation. It is used as a noun, to describe an admirer and conscious follower of his work. Occasionally, it is deployed as a complimentary adjective, to mean something like "displaying outspoken intellectual honesty, like Orwell". Very few other writers have garnered this double tribute of becoming both adjective and noun.

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