Etymology

facecrime

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Today it means: A facial expression considered unacceptable. Full definition →

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The story

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.