weasel
Example Sentences
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"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
And with quarterback Dylan Raiola out for the second half with an injury, USC was able to limit Johnson just enough to weasel its way back into the game.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 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
I had planned everything I would say so that he couldn’t weasel out of it.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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