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Verbit

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, often followed by of) To shirk, avoid, or fail to fulfill (a task, responsibility, etc.)
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To obtain or extract, especially with effort and by cunning methods.

Esimerkit

  • With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help.
  • And if they try to weasel out that way, Obama is warning them that he'll "call them out."
  • In an effort to ingratiate himself with the 1968 Nixon campaign, Kissinger offered inside tips that he had weaseled out of friends privy to the Johnson Administration's talks with the North Vietnamese.
  • [S]ome of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an "Inside Edition" researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderson—play themselves, each trying to weasel out the real inside story.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiweaseled outPartisiipin perfektiweaselled out
Imperfektiweaseled outImperfektiweaselled out
Partisiipin preesensweaseling outPartisiipin preesensweaselling out
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensweasels out