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

Cluny aimed a kick at him as the efficient weasel took his place.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"I've seen stoats, I've seen weasels, I've even seen pine martens," said Kate Wollen, from Forestry England.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

At the tunnel entrance in the ditch, Fangburn and Killconey were madly thrust aside as rats, weasels, ferrets and stoats fought their way out of the tunnel.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The virus has weaseled its way into our gyms and our fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

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

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

Grandma hugged Zed and then Zed hugged Joey, and bam, faster than one of Joey’s knockouts, Zed had weaseled himself into becoming part of Joey’s family.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

“I was having him prep the podcast guests, and then he started weaseling his way onto set every now and then,” Goblikon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

This weaseling is probably the same reason that the court teed up Section 2’s constitutionality in an obscure order issued late on a Friday afternoon in August last year.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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

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

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood