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☆ weasel words

words or remarks that are deliberately ambiguous or misleading

Etymology: prob. in allusion to the weasel's habit of sucking out the contents of an egg without destroying the shell

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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