Double Talk Edit Meaning

1.

Otherwise unnecessary verbiage added in order to confuse the listener, such as using a double negative to make a statement mean the opposite of what it would otherwise mean. See also, doublespeak.

"I didn't say I would not do it; I said I wouldn't not do it."

"That's double talk!"

2.

deceptive speech designed to mean something that it does not explicitly say

Lay off the double talk already.

See doublespeak, politics, religion