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double-talk

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double-talk  (British, American & Australian) also double-speak (mainly American)
a way of speaking that confuses people in order to avoid telling them the truth He said the new train service would run fewer trains, but would provide a better service - sheer double-talk.


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Times are tough in Upstate New York, the last thing families need is more double-talk from another career Albany politician like Jim Tedisco who spends their tax money freely on himself, while they are left paying higher taxes each year," said Jennifer Crider, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
We can expect a bit of double-talk from Papal advisers if they are operating a cover-up operation.
We are still behind the times and being led by the stolid and traditionalist double-standards shown in the controlling blackmail of ecclesiastical double-talk.
 
 
 
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