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weasel out
verb as in back out
verb as in chicken out
verb as in disengage
verb as in recant
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in renege
verb as in repeal
verb as in rescind
Example Sentences
She had read the appeal and says she felt it contained the lies of a killer trying to weasel out of full responsibility.
The ambitious young man had slunk like a weasel out of this civil war into which he had heedlessly thrown himself.
Bevis looked at him a little while, and then put his foot on the spring and pressed it down and took the weasel out.
Finally I went to the house for the gun, and when I returned found the weasel out chasing the hen again.
Mother used to say that all the worry in the world would never keep a weasel out of the hen-house.
The Conductor immediately threw the Weasel out of the window, as ordered, and the Hatter resumed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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