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double-talk

or »å´Ç³Ü·²ú±ô±ð·³Ù²¹±ô°ì

[ duhb-uhl-tawk ]

noun

  1. speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  2. deliberately evasive or ambiguous language:

    When you try to get a straight answer, he gives you double-talk.



verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in double-talk.

verb (used with object)

  1. to accomplish or persuade by double-talk.

double talk

noun

  1. rapid speech with a mixture of nonsense syllables and real words; gibberish
  2. empty, deceptive, or ambiguous talk, esp by politicians
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of double-talk1

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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Example Sentences

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He exposed double-talk, pointed out hypocrisy and could draw laughter with a wide-eyed look of incredulousness or fear.

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Dressed up in an inexhaustible supply of euphemistic rhetoric and double-talk, such immoral policies are stunning to see in real time.

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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.

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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.

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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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