verb
- present participle of weasel; avoiding responsibility or commitment through evasive or deceitful behavior
Usage: informal
Examples
- He’s weaseling out of his promise to help with the project.
- Stop weaseling and give me a straight answer.
- She accused him of weaseling his way out of paying his share.
- The politician was weaseling around the difficult questions.
- I caught him weaseling out of his commitment again.
- They’re weaseling their way out of the contract terms.