weasel

“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

"The field is replete with weasel words and unfortunately one of those is consciousness," says Prof Stevan Harnad of Quebec University.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2024

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

She couldn’t shake the feeling that the weasel was anxious to watch her fail.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

They’d obtained over a hundred new recruits, mainly rats but with a good scattering of ferrets and weasels, and the odd stoat.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

In fact, Wright didn’t explain things so much as conduct a master class in weaseling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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