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weasel words
noun
(weasel word)
a word used in order to evade or retreat from a direct or forthright statement or position
weasel words
noun
(weasel word)
a word used in order to avoid being clear or direct
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doublespeak
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euphemisms
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circumlocutions
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gobbledegook
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obfuscation
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gobbledygook
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platitudes
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newspeak
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verbiage
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bafflegab
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untruths
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hyperbole
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soundbite
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jargon
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claptrap
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sophistry
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legalese
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mendacious
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phraseology
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disingenuous
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dishonest
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platitudinous
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bullshit
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flummery
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dissembling
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prevarication
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subterfuge
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puffery
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mendacity
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hypocrisy
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codswallop
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mumbo jumbo
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tautologies
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brownism
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balderdash
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doubletalk
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piffle
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scaremonger
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tosh
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evasions
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waffly
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phrase
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underhandedness
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resiling
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bureaucratese
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bumph
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rhetoric
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irrelevancies
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falsehoods
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journalese
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equivocation
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sophists
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shameless
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misspeaks
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blither
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deceitful
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baldfaced
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sanctimonious
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words
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deceptions
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humbug
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duplicity
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hairsplitting
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legalistic
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baloney
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drivel
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mot juste
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twaddle
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bastardry
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phoney
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fig leaf
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fuddle
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doublethink
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bumf
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gimmicks
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buzzwords
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flapdoodle
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smokescreen
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dishonesty
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generalities
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split infinitive
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pikestaff
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blather
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anodyne
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featherbedding
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inuendo
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pettifogging
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nonsense
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glib
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meretricious
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sanctimony
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logical fallacy
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tetchily
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fibs
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buncombe
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tommyrot
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exaggerations
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boilerplate
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innuendo
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grandiloquence
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