weasel wordsnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈwiː.zəl ˌwɜːdz/us/ˈwiː.zəl ˌwɝːdz/informalsomething that someone says either to avoid answering a question clearly or to make someone believe something that is not true
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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