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- adjective evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
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Examples
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The results were invariably weasel-worded conclusions that evaded the truth and provided little insight and no accountability.
Dennis Jett: Ignoring the Past Does Not Erase our Responsibility for It Dennis Jett 2011
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True, but vacuous, weasel-worded, fact-free, faux-expert prognostications by contemptible establishmentarian hacks rank pretty low on the list of charities I donate to.
Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence 2010
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There is the string of vacuous campaign promises by Obama, and after inauguration the writing of a memo — now discovered to be so weasel-worded as to be worthless — by his appointed attorney.
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March 11, 2010, 6: 01 pm public_defender says: subpatre: There is the string of vacuous campaign promises by Obama, and after inauguration the writing of a memo — now discovered to be so weasel-worded as to be worthless — by his appointed attorney.
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“Enormous progress” has been a worthless, weasel-worded memo.
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Sometimes they're followed up by vague allowances that it could explain these changes better -- the dot-com equivalent of a politician's weasel-worded "if I have offended anybody" non-apology.
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Note all the weasel-worded adverbs in the above paragraphs?
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IRS documents I recently obtained reveal that Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, were each duped into signing letters claiming that the US Government cannot fund participation in Expos because of restrictive legislation -- a blatant lie (repeated, slightly weasel-worded, in Landers 'account).
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Sometimes they're followed up by vague allowances that it could explain these changes better -- the dot-com equivalent of a politician's weasel-worded "if I have offended anybody" non-apology.
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IRS documents I recently obtained reveal that Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, were each duped into signing letters claiming that the US Government cannot fund participation in Expos because of restrictive legislation -- a blatant lie (repeated, slightly weasel-worded, in Landers 'account).
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