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WEASEL WORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("weasel word" is a kind of...):
qualification; reservation (a statement that limits or restricts some claim)
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