weasel out
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help."
- "And if they try to weasel out that way, Obama is warning them that he'll "call them out.""
- "In an effort to ingratiate himself with the 1968 Nixon campaign, Kissinger offered inside tips that he had weaseled out of friends privy to the Johnson Administration's talks with the North Vietnamese."
- "[S]ome of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an "Inside Edition" researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderson—play themselves, each trying to weasel out the real inside story."