I. ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
1. : language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense : gibberish
double-talk … produces in the victim upon whom it is worked a strong suspicion that he is either hard of hearing or slowly going mad — Life
2. : inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language : gobbledygook , jargon
lost in the miasma of double-talk, hypocrisy, and shortsightedness — R.E.Lauterbach
writes the sort of double-talk which is all things to everybody — Max Lerner
II. intransitive verb
: to use double-talk
go on double-talking with him, always skirting the main subject but never touching it — Philip Barry