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- noun Alternative form of
double talk .
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Examples
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Rediculous Republican doubletalk from the party of wishful failure for America.
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Assuming that this incredible doubletalk is not crassly political, it illuminates the confusion and ambivalence of some Canadians.
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Doublespeak or doubletalk is a subsequent elaboration on the word doublethink that never actually appeared in the novel itself.
Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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TIM RUSSERT, MODERATOR: You stand behind the word "doubletalk"?
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It's this kind of doubletalk that makes me look through his argument like the Emperor's Clothes and see that nothing is there.
OpEdNews 2010
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He was one of several who chastised state officials such as Illinois Department of Corrections Director Michael P. Randle with "doubletalk" in suggesting the state prison was at average capacity while at the same time endorsing an early release program for 200 prisoners to shore up bed space.
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The ad points to her history of doubletalk and flip-flopping on immigration.
Frank Sharry: Immigration Insider | 4 Weeks Out: Whitman in Hot Seat, Murdoch For Reform, Latino Vote Rising Frank Sharry 2010
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The ad points to her history of doubletalk and flip-flopping on immigration.
Frank Sharry: Immigration Insider | 4 Weeks Out: Whitman in Hot Seat, Murdoch For Reform, Latino Vote Rising Frank Sharry 2010
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The ad points to her history of doubletalk and flip-flopping on immigration.
Frank Sharry: Immigration Insider | 4 Weeks Out: Whitman in Hot Seat, Murdoch For Reform, Latino Vote Rising Frank Sharry 2010
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If we could hear something other than vague promises and doubletalk laced with veiled threats then maybe the grassroots would stop being so angry.
Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama 2009
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