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Definition of Double talk
1. Noun. Deliberately unintelligible gibberish.
Definition of Double talk
1. Noun. (idiomatic) : Lying, especially in a formal political statement. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) Speech which combines English and English-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. ¹
3. Noun. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Talk
Literary usage of Double talk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Terrorism: Victims' Access to Terrorist Assets edited by Jon Kyl (2002)
"... but it is double-talk, and it is double-talk that has a very specific
institutional purpose, which is to say to the world and to say to the Congress, ..."
2. U. S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of the Persian by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"... that we're really moving at top speed, and that we're escaping from all of
the kind of double- talk that's been associated with many cases up until now, ..."
3. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"While these familiar phrases are reminiscent of Hollywood double-talk, they're
far more straightforward than that—they're the way computers talk to their ..."
4. Self-Neglect Among the Elderly: Maintaining Continuity of Self by Susanna D. Bozinovski (1998)
"That's double talk. I took the pills as directed (shouts) BY GOD! (laughing) not
the (laughing) All I said was, took the pills as directed. ..."
5. Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Marta L. Werner (2005)
"... double talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (New York: Routledge,).
9. For an overview of the publication history of the American notebooks, ..."
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