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- verb US Present participle of
weasel .
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Examples
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But Tucker is resourceful, cunning, cruel, and petty like most conservatives, so the idea of weaseling his way onto a private listserv where members thought they were speaking on a private email list in order to then publish those private emails selectively ... well, that was too delicious for Tucker to resist.
Crooks and Liars 2010
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As such, there seems less reason to worry about "weaseling" in this case.
Edwards Secured Private Commitment From Obama That He'd Go On Poverty Tour As Nominee 2009
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It's not "weaseling" to refuse to honor an agreement about campaign financing made to someone who was obviously acting in bad faith.
Edwards Secured Private Commitment From Obama That He'd Go On Poverty Tour As Nominee 2009
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Something to consider beyond the "weaseling" out of a ticket logic.
Toledo Newspaper 2009
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Rev. Flip's description of OpSavAm's battle with the "weaseling" group of tolerant teens posseses a certain poetry: "More than 700 gentle Christians converged on the Rowan-Salisbury School Board last night to stand for Christ and say, 'No,' to the radical homosexual agenda that is weaseling its way into our public schools.
Jim's Daily Outrage 2006
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Except that one has to write text such that the SCOTUS and Congress have a harder time weaseling broken interpretations in.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2 2010
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Ordinarily, such weaseling would have FIRE in an uproar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Muscling or weaseling or conning your way into a better, more advantageous, spot in line was unfair.
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: Don't Sell Your Soul for a Good Shopping Deal This Christmas Ph.D. Dr. Gregory Jantz 2011
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Sorry Hank – there's no weaseling out of the statement you made.
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If they make the mess, they should have to clean it up without weaseling out of it.
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