Sekirov Dictionary

weasel word

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

A word used to hedge a statement, for example to make it vague, equivocal, or misleading.
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(old-fashioned) A word that negates or removes the meaning of the word it qualifies.
- Weasel words are words that suck all of the life out of the words next to them just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell. — 1900

verb1

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To use weasel words.
- Now Sears looked down at the person fate had put closer to him than anyone else in the world, and knew that Ricky was thinking that he had weasel-worded his way out of the last question. — 1979

forms

weasel worded · weasel wording · weasel words

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