Definitions:

1. of or relating to the works of George Orwell adjective
   • There is a passage in this book that is quite Orwellian.
2. resembling the totalitarian political methods critqued in the works of George Orwell, particularly in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; these are characterized by the use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, totalitarianism, surveillance and repression adjective
   • Government surveillance is becoming more and more Orwellian.