SERIOUS/NOT JOKINGspeech that is complicated and can have more than one meaning, sometimes used deliberately to deceive or confuse people 模棱两可的讲话,含糊的言辞SYN British English double-speak
legal double-talk
法律上模棱两可的话
Examples from the Corpus
double-talk• If she had a gift, he thought, it was for parable and double-talk.• The statement, in the best Pentagonian double-talk, was designed to deceive.