weasel
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No being a weasel and giving me three or four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"He's a weasel of a man because every time he's confronted, he becomes sick or says one of his family members has died," says Marns, who now lives in Dubai.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Although Kennedy repeatedly claimed that he's not anti-vaccine throughout his hearing, his statements about vaccines are loaded with weasel words and caveats that are common deflection strategies from vaccine denialists.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
At least he’d have one runty, cynical weasel to hang out with.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The species, which is related to weasels, were once common but declined during the 18th and 19th centuries because of hunting and the loss of woodland.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Squid-headed figures in lab coats inject fish with pink dye and cradle docile geese in front of giant mushroom-capped trees while solemn weasels look on.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Animal rehabilitation networks will offer white-tailed deer, shrews, weasels, and squirrels.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 29, 2024
"Ha' you any rats, mice, polecats, or weasels, or any old cows sick o' the measles?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Instead, he has weaseled around, and presumably didn’t tell his mother not to make her despicable request to you—he surely knew what she was up to and didn’t even have the courage to warn you.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2021
The virus has weaseled its way into our gyms and our fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
It weaseled under the doors and through the seams of your shirt.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
It’s not the only comedy with pithy, repeatable dialogue that weaseled its way into our vernacular so completely that we started to forget about the source.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
I weaseled my way beside Rose, who had RiRi in her lap.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In fact, Wright didn’t explain things so much as conduct a master class in weaseling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
By the time it came out in 2017, the AI research emerging from the company’s labs was so promising that Kohs was invited to keep weaseling around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
The writer, Martin Keller, has died by the time Sal encounters the story, and soon she’s weaseling her way into the lives of Keller’s widow and daughter to better understand the role she played.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
The sketchy dude turns out to be a shady fixer trying to save his own life by weaseling his way into unwitting police protection.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Under their cover I stood a fair chance at weaseling off.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood
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