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weasel


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The weasel as a small and agile carnivore is taken as a type of cunning; a deceitful or treacherous person.

weasel words words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading; the expression was popularized by the American Republican statesman Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) in a speech of May 1915.


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