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From George Orwell (1903–1950), English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, “Politics and the English Language.” (1946):
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
ooh! That’s a good one.
Had to look it up – it is to confuse the enemy I agree with Mobiuswolf