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appear meaningful}} {{For|the specific meaning in Wikipedia|Wikipedia:Weasel word|selfref=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} [[File:Weasel words...17 KB (1,860 words) - 09:44, 4 July 2024- also== * [[Spinner's weasel]], a mechanical yarn measuring device * [[Weasel word]], a statement designed to deceive with vague or unspecified authority...2 KB (329 words) - 18:38, 22 May 2024
- *[[Stephen K. Amos]] and racial and sexual epithets *[[Euphemism]]s and [[weasel word]]s *[[Omid Djalili]] and the Persian [[politeness]] of [[taarof]] *Euphemism...9 KB (788 words) - 15:18, 6 February 2024
- [[passive voice]] and similar constructions in journalese as a form of [[weasel word|weasel wording]] that a writer chooses "to hide the culprit" of the action...6 KB (679 words) - 04:49, 30 May 2024
- initials we should // - but we don't - dumb goys - // clock in that weasel word ''crossfire''}}</ref> According to [[Denis MacShane]] in ''Globalising...7 KB (819 words) - 17:27, 23 November 2023
- rugby [[1981 Springbok Tour]] by Glenn Wood ==See also== * [[Cop (disambiguation)]] * [[Out (disambiguation)]] * [[Weasel word]] {{disambiguation}}...1 KB (220 words) - 01:32, 6 November 2023
- bois}} {{Portal|Linguistics}} * [[If-by-whiskey]] * [[Officialese]] * [[Weasel word]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Rhetoric]] {{rhetoric-stub}}...2 KB (251 words) - 18:59, 24 November 2022
- Early western influence in Fujian (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)his book in prison several years after he returned from China. Some{{Weasel word|date=December 2023}} suggest that he did not visit this part of China...5 KB (784 words) - 16:34, 5 June 2024
Swabian German (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)SHG "{{lang|de|-lein}}" or "{{lang|de|-chen}}", but is used, arguably{{weasel-word|date=February 2023}}, more often in Swabian. A small house (SHG: {{lang|de|Haus}})...19 KB (1,403 words) - 17:21, 6 April 2024- [[Slogan]] * [[Transfer (propaganda)]] * [[Video news release]] * [[Weasel Word]] * [[White propaganda]] * [[Yellow journalism]] ==Theory of public...9 KB (940 words) - 06:40, 29 April 2024
Aspen Highlands (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)intense{{clarify|date=July 2024}}, wild{{explain|date=July 2024}}, and fun{{weasel word|date=July 2024}} skiing in the state.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}...9 KB (951 words) - 03:03, 31 July 2024- Basic Introduction to the Science of Language'' (1965), and ''[[weasel word|Weasel Word]]s: Saying What You Don't Mean'' (1978). Pei wrote ''The America...11 KB (876 words) - 18:12, 9 January 2023
- [[Journalese]] * [[Legalese]] * [[Military terminology]] * [[Officialese]] * [[Weasel word]] == References == {{Reflist}} == Further reading == * {{cite book|author=Bryan...12 KB (1,233 words) - 22:29, 1 April 2024
Puffery (redirect from Peacock word)("an amazing recording"; "revealed" for 'announced' or 'said'), ''[[weasel word]]s'' ("probably one of the most important albums of the 2000s"; "Perhaps...8 KB (1,047 words) - 22:18, 24 June 2024
3D lookup table (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)10-bit/component log images as the input to the 3D LUT. Output is usually{{weasel word|date=March 2023}} RGB values that are to be placed unchanged into a display...3 KB (321 words) - 17:40, 8 July 2023- Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita (early 17th century) on the Aṣṭādhyāyī and is believed {{Weasel word|date=October 2023}} to be more popular than Pāṇini's work. It re-arranges...3 KB (305 words) - 04:49, 8 April 2024
Unconditional love (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)and [[Buddhism]], the [[Sanskrit]] word "[[bhakti]]" is apparently{{weasel-word|date=July 2022}} used by some{{bywho|date=July 2022}} to refer to unconditional...18 KB (2,378 words) - 08:22, 31 July 2024
Finland Swedish (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)considerable source of frustration to most native Swedish-speakers in Finland.{{weasel-word|date=January 2019}}{{citation-needed|date=January 2019}} Any language...15 KB (1,600 words) - 11:50, 29 June 2024
Macanese Patois (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)Macanese, {{lang|mzs|sua mae}} and {{lang|mzs|seu pai}} would likely{{weasel word|date=June 2024}} be rendered as {{lang|mzs|su mai}} and {{lang|mzs|su...50 KB (6,371 words) - 01:50, 8 August 2024
- word 'voluntary' to qualify the word 'universal', you are using a '''weasel word'''; it has sucked all the meaning out of 'universal'. The two words flatly
- use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], speech at St. Louis (May 31, 1916). "Weasel word" taken
- of some local domain – are not grammatical. However, that is a weasel word. What exactly is a local domain? === Clause-Mate Condition === This