weasel 的 2 个定义
plural wea·sels, wea·sel.
- any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- any of various similar animals of the family Mustelidae.
- a cunning, sneaky person.
- (5)
- to evade an obligation, duty, or the like; renege: That's one invitation I'd like to weasel out of.
- to use weasel words; be ambiguous; mislead: Upon cross-examination the witness began to weasel.
- Slang. to inform.
weasel 近义词
sneak
avoid, evade
更多weasel例句
- Note the weasel words (a term they do actually teach in law school): “affected community.”
- In the usual weasel language: more observations were needed.
- His mean face slowly resolved into a baffled, respectful expression, like that of a weasel facing a trap.
- The Gold Weasel Medal goes to Marco Rubio, as others such as Tim Noah have noted.
- I think the American people would like to hear Romney weasel around that one.
- Courage, that a poor private carrying a musket has to spare of; that does not fail a weasel or a rat; that is a brutish faculty?
- They have both been sometimes confounded with the weasel of Virginia, the genet, the musk-deer, and even with the hyna.
- He is called the weasel armadillo, because his head is nearly of the same form as a weasel.
- Then the father recollected his perjured vow, and his witnesses, the weasel and the well.
- "They are following our people toward the lodges of the Ogalalas," Painted Weasel told him.