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

Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

He’s a weasel with a sword, the drunken-samurai trope like the tragic buffoon Kikuchiyo, portrayed by the great Toshiro Mifune in the Akira Kurosawa classic “Seven Samurai.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Had Goldstein settled for these weasel words, she would have undermined her analysis before it began.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

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

Then the owl came out to hunt, and foxes, weasels and strange wild cats stalked among the tree trunks.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017

"It's weaseled its way into my psychology, I'm not gonna lie. It would take a lot right now to talk me into playing a killer."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015

“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

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

It is an act of self-denial and lawyerly weaseling that infuriates his Democratic opposition but gives the newspapermen looking down from the gallery nothing incendiary to write.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2012

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

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood