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double-talk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If she had a gift, he thought, it was for parable and double-talk.
▪ The statement, in the best Pentagonian double-talk, was designed to deceive.
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double-talk

n. (alternative form of double talk English)

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Double-talk

Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are used to give the appearance of knowledge and so confuse or amuse the audience. Comedians who have used this as part of their act include Al Kelly, Cliff Nazarro, Danny Kaye, Gary Owens, Irwin Corey, Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar, Stanley Unwin, and Reggie Watts.

Usage examples of "double-talk".

Such claims are contradictory, of course, but it is part of the double-talk of the method that even this contradiction can be erased and disfigured so that the difference between historicism and a-historicism is no longer recognizable.

I listened to Hillary speak on Ritalin, and I heard the usual double-talk.

Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.

Instead she had command of jive talk, adoléscent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.

I buttered up the old girl, invoked the memory of her dear father, indulged in some architectural double-talk, and got her okay.

Or had he managed to whip up a little more ingenuity and double-talk the Mayas into letting him live?