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double-talk
[ duhb-uhl-tawk ]
noun
- speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- deliberately evasive or ambiguous language:
When you try to get a straight answer, he gives you double-talk.
verb (used without object)
- to engage in double-talk.
verb (used with object)
- to accomplish or persuade by double-talk.
double talk
noun
- rapid speech with a mixture of nonsense syllables and real words; gibberish
- empty, deceptive, or ambiguous talk, esp by politicians
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- »å´Ç³Üb±ô±ð-³Ù²¹±ô°ìe°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of double-talk1
Example Sentences
He exposed double-talk, pointed out hypocrisy and could draw laughter with a wide-eyed look of incredulousness or fear.
Dressed up in an inexhaustible supply of euphemistic rhetoric and double-talk, such immoral policies are stunning to see in real time.
If his pre-prison projects were almost entirely freestyled, these songs are more tightly written, honoring the fallen, indicting the double-talk of the industry, powered by the energy of a bowstring being pulled back for a half-decade.
Instead, the orchestration of the House objections was a story of shrewd salesmanship and calculated double-talk, set against a backdrop of demographic change across the country that has widened the gulf between the parties.
Perhaps the elderly woman was a Double-Talk Folk, after all, telling Ophie to avoid the dead while she left sweets for her husband.
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