weasel

"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

“But when universities do the same thing by trying to weasel out of their contracts, it’s equally corrosive.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

‘But if you is taking these sloshbuckling noisy bellypoppers any closer, all the giants is waking up at once and then pop goes the weasel.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

That means eradicating invasive species such as possums, rats and mustelids—a group that includes weasels, ferrets and stoats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024

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

Their female generals lead troops of between 6 and 40 of these little berserker weasels into battle with a plan of attack coordinated beside grizzly mongoose war veterans.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2024

On the hill, the old ruins stood white and silent—no sign of ancient paths, or goddesses, or farting weasels.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

A group of Los Angeles consumers is taking a stand against so-called service fees that have increasingly weaseled their way onto cafe and restaurant bills across the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017

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 ● Dec. 20, 2013

“I don’t know how I weaseled my way onto this team,” Romo said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011

Every time the memory weaseled its way back inside Toby’s brain, it stung, just as fiercely as though not a single day had passed.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

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

Which retired executive is weaseling out of his tax liabilities?

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

If they know your name, they can find ways of weaseling into your life.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2017

Under their cover I stood a fair chance at weaseling off.

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood