Noun : When you try to get a straight answer, he gives you double-talk. From Dictionary.com.
And that standard is to not engage in double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2007] Reference
They were tired of spin, and P.R., and double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008] Reference
And they confuse the voters with their double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [Colin Beavan: Drill Here, Drill Now, Get Nothing but an Opinion poll point or two] Reference
No amount of double-talk will absolve him from that. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Winer: Fear Bombs of 2008] Reference
This is double-talk and snake oil of the worst kind. From Wordnik.com. [John Geyman: The Public Option: Dead By Pen Strokes In Congressional Committees] Reference
And sometimes double-talk from the American public as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008] Reference
The McCain platform is nothing but nonsense and double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I'm Questioning Obama's Patriotism? Moi? Never!] Reference
OK, enough double-talk and obfuscations from the Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [John Kerry: Fighting To Stop Torture] Reference
Today he turned the suggestion of double-talk to his advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
It is also part of an even larger pattern of McCain double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald McEntee: McCain in Memphis: Straight Talk or Double Talk?] Reference
Hopefully it will happen, but that's politician double-talk there. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary Halts Obama's Progress In Pennsylvania, But Still Only Leads By Six] Reference
He talked about her double-talk, you know, gamesmanship and the like. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008] Reference
"The double-talk express is at it again" would always be a good opening. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I'm Questioning Obama's Patriotism? Moi? Never!] Reference
The wheels on the double-talk express are falling off all through the land. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Edges Ahead In The National Polls] Reference
It's the hypocrisy and the double-talk that makes so many of us so cynical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2009] Reference
"You don't need money to tell the truth, or to not double-talk." print share. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Camp To Hillary: You Don't Need Money To Not Double-Talk] Reference
And Barack Obama accused Mrs. Clinton of using double-talk on economic issues. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference
All of Obama's double-talk threatens to reduce the first and raise the second. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Double-Talk] Reference
As a politician, he is just as guilty of double-talk as most other politicians. From Wordnik.com. [Bush The Communicator] Reference
The Illinois senator accused the governor of double-talk on congressional pork. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2008] Reference
The wheels on the double-talk express are falling off, falling off, falling off. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Edges Ahead In The National Polls] Reference
All I've heard is double-talk, lies, threats, accusations that don't hold water. From Wordnik.com. [The Alternative Factor] Reference
An article in the venerable magazine The Economist, made this point in double-talk. From Wordnik.com. [Willingham: About poverty and school success] Reference
The American people deserve more than confusion, double-talk and delay on this issue. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Address By The President On The Aging Of America] Reference
Can you understand what Ratigan is saying through his double-talk and gesticulations?. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Milazzo: Dylan Ratigan? Really MSNBC, Don't We Have Enough Ranters Already?] Reference
It's self-serving double-talk to try and make her own selfishness sound somehow noble. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: NOT About Susan Boyle!] Reference
He was famous for double-talk -- how else do you make a team that loses 120 games lovable?. From Wordnik.com. [Can't Anyone Here Play This Game?] Reference
I see nothing in the Obama memo that says that Obama is guilty of double-talk on free trade. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Blasts Hillary On NAFTA] Reference
But it reminds folks of a Clinton White House that specialized in double-talk and dissembling. From Wordnik.com. [Will Character Be Destiny?] Reference
COOPER: Is there a little bit of double-talk coming from both sides, from attorneys on both sides?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2003] Reference
Kozyrev may be agreeably small-bottomed, but his speech last week was a masterpiece of double-talk. From Wordnik.com. ['Boris Is Finally A Russian'] Reference
Can you imagine this kind of evasion and double-talk being accepted from any other national candidate?. From Wordnik.com. [John McCain, the Cowardly Lion: David Roberts] Reference
It's the double-talk express's view of what is freedom, justice and our nation's role in the world that he gets all wrong. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Obama Has Confidence In Himself But Not In His Country] Reference
Feel good posturing and garrulous double-talk that impresses white voters in South Africa will not assist the people of Zimbabwe. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The double-talk and dissembling continued when Alan Chambers told the Citizen-Times that Exodus was, "not about fire and brimstone.". From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Besen: The Big 'Ex-Gay' Extravaganza] Reference
More double-talk on tax relief, more ignoring of the looming Social Security crisis, more re-tread ideas to improve our public schools. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Ingram: Regardless of Who Wins the Election, Start Teaching Your Kids Mandarin] Reference
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