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	Weasel word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A weasel word is a word that is intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement, or avoids forming a clear position on a particular issue.
		Weasel words are almost always intended to deceive or draw attention from something the speaker doesn't want emphasized, rather than being the inadvertent result of the speaker's or writer's poor but honest attempt at description.
		Weasel terms are the equivalent of spin in the political sphere in British English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weasel_word (1049 words)

	Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weasel words give the force of authority to a statement without letting the reader decide if the source of the opinion is reliable.
		If a statement can't stand on its own without weasel words, it lacks neutral point of view; either a source for the statement should be found, or the statement should be removed.
		Weasel words don't really give a neutral point of view; they just spread hearsay, or couch personal opinion in vague, indirect syntax.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avoid_weasel_terms (781 words)

	Weasel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weasel is also used as a term for a sneaky person, popularized by the comic strip Dilbert (used in this sense in Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel).
		Such a sneaky person may often use one or another weasel word, a word that is intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially controversial statement, or avoids forming a clear position on a particular issue.
		Weasel is also the name given to someone who scores lots of chipped goals in Pro Evolution Soccer "oh he's weasled it", is often a common phrase.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weasel_(disambiguation) (294 words)

	* Weasel - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This weasel feeds primarily on small mammals (pocket gophers, mice, ground and tree squirrels and chipmunks), and occasionally on birds and their eggs, other small vertebrates such as snakes and frogs, and insects.
		Sea otters are members of the weasel or Mustelidae family and are closely related to the mink and river otters.
		The long-tailed weasel is a predator in the wild, but house cats prey upon chipmunks in urban areas.
	en.mimi.hu /animals/weasel.html (1106 words)

	Glossary of Specialist Words, Definitions and Constitutional Meanings
		The word federal in a general sense refers to the nature of an agreement between or among two or more states, nations, or other groups to merge into a union in which control of common affairs is held by a central authority created by and with the consent of the members.
		The word is used in a peculiar manner by some citizens of the European Union who use the term in their desire to enact certain laws over the national parliaments, (a "federal EU" would have such powers) even though certain other laws (the acquis communautaire) are readily enacted over such parliaments already.
		A weasel word is a word that is intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially controversial statement, or avoids forming a clear position on a particular issue.
	www.cusdi.org /glossary.htm (3097 words)

	Weasel word: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Weasel terms are the equivalent of spin[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] in the political sphere in British English.
		A speaker’s use of weasel words obscures the fact he has omitted vital information that is unsuitable to the message of which he is trying to convince an audience.
		Zeugma (from the greek word for "yoke") is a figure of speech in which one word applies to two others in different senses of that word, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/weasel_word.htm (1590 words)

	Reference.com/Web Search/weasel word
		A weasel word is a word that is intended to, or has the effect of,...
		Weasel words are words or phrases that smuggle bias into seemingly supported...
		Weasel words give the force of authority to a statement without letting the...
	www.reference.com /search?db=web&q=weasel%20word (229 words)

	Planning Under the influence of change
		Roosevelt was referring to the weasel’s ability to empty the yolk of an egg without breaking the shell, making it appear that the egg is untouched.
		Weasel words are those terms or phrases used to create the illusion of truth or to evade a direct commitment.
		Expect to find weasel words wherever the official language is a kind of code that, on surface, everyone must at least appear to understand - or risk being excluded.
	www.galtglobalreview.com /business/weasel_words.html (872 words)

	Semantics 4
		To "weasel" around this problem, a rhetorical trick has come into use whereby a rather intemperate claim, untrue in itself, can be made and then partly recalled or qualified or in some other way altered (to bring it back within the realm of truth) through the use of one or more weasel words.
		Weasel words have become a common method of deception in all areas of persuasion--especially in advertising and politics.
		In a word, this is the fallacy of misquotation.
	www.virtualsalt.com /think/semant4.htm (5491 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I'm not sure where the term Weasel Word came from, but it's sufficiently disparaging that it suits its purpose.
		Often, words change when they are borrowed by a separate discipline, such as philosophy, and their meaning changes in the process.
		Obviously, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, but this word has been bandied about by journos and politicos to give themselves a modicum of credibility.
	www.btinternet.com /~quin/ColSup/lingua/weasel_2.html (1152 words)

	The World Today - Word watch: In search of meaning in contemporary word usage
		DON WATSON: Well, weasel words are words which are rather like the eggs that weasels suck the middle out of.
		So a weasel word is something like telling people that they're downsized when they've been sacked or rightsized or structurally adjusted or they've suffered an involuntary career event, whatever — they've become a jobseeker.
		That was an express weasel word and it apparently deceived a lot of people.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1255630.htm (1940 words)

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		As you know, words have connotative and denotative meanings; the denotative meaning of a word is its literal (dictionary) meaning, while the connotative meaning of a word includes all the meanings the word might suggest.
		THE WEASEL CLAIM A weasel word is a modifier that practically negates the claim that follows.
		Words or claims that appear substantial upon first look but disintegrate into hollow meaninglessness on analysis are weasels.
	www.kristisiegel.com /CulturalCritique.doc (1531 words)

	Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey: lies, damned lies, politics, & op-ed
		Those are all just so many ethical weasel words, and whatever the reasons, ethics had little to do with it.
		Weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.
		If you use a weasel word after another, there is nothing left of the other.
	www.bisso.com /ujg_archives/000119.html (529 words)

	SWEET ARE THE USES OF EUPHEMISM
		It is to use words precisely, to keep their sword edges honed, to search for the exact word and not settle for a nicked saber.
		According to the masters of Merriam-Webster, the term derives from "the weasel's reputed habit of sucking the contents out of an egg while leaving the shell superficially intact: a word used in order to evade or retreat from a direct or forthright statement or position." In contemporary usage, "weasel word" is a pejorative.
		By extension, a true "weasel word" is a lie, not a mere euphemism.
	www.theconservativevoice.com /articles/article.html?id=11738 (543 words)

	Policy
		As a weasel is alleged to be able to empty an egg without leaving a visible sign, so can these words deprive of content any term to which they are prefixed while seemingly leaving them untouched.
		A weasel word is used to draw the teeth from a concept one is obliged to employ, but from which one wishes to eliminate all implications that challenge one's ideological premises.
		The words by themselves don't expose two crucial distinctions: whether assistance should be by each of us as individuals or organised on a collective basis; and, if collective, whether it should be voluntary (through donations) or involuntary (through government action financed out of taxes).
	www.cis.org.au /Policy/summer03-04/polsumm0304-4.htm (2797 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Weasel
		Weasels and skunks for example, are banned by the ordinance, but ferrets, a variety of weasel, and descented skunks have become staples at many pet stores and...
		Gena Weasel, a Fort Belknap Assiniboine, said the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial is a reminder to her of the ills that have befallen Indian Country in the past...
		And all we are given are weasel words from one of the so-called rising stars in the so-called party of opposition.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Weasel.htm (12020 words)

	Adventure Activity Standards - weasel words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Appropriate, account for, and consider are words that pepper Victoria’s Adventure Activity Standards, produced by the Outdoor Recreation Centre, funded and endorsed by the State Government.
		Their use is a tacit acknowledgement that it is not possible to define meaningful standards for these kinds of activities in just a few pages of text.
		The highest concentration of weasel words is in the Snorkelling, SCUBA Diving and Wildlife Swims AAS, with this paragraph that provides a checklist but uses multiple weasel words to avoid specifying anything at all.
	www.adventurevictoria.org /aas_weasel.shtml (460 words)

	Radioactive Liberty has moved: Weasel!
		I intend to make an effort to use the word "weasel" more often from now on.
		Upon further reflection, I decided that what It would be better to replace the use of all profanities with the word "weasel" or a variation.
		Potential spam subject line, "enlarge your weasel." That claim is so full of weasel.
	radioactiveliberty.blogspot.com /2006/01/weasel.html (167 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The problem in interpreting the post the way you did is that you took my usage of the word 'weasel' to be 'the' weasel that posts here.
		Rather, the person who posts here has taken the name weasel but he is hardly the only much less the first instances of the word in usage.
		The person who posts here is a weasel in the verb sense of course but even the small furry creature does not deserve to be associated with this person.
	www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=10810&commentID=198380 (400 words)

	The Chronicles of Nevermore » WEASELS, UNITE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is another group of words that got left off the list of the parts of speech that dear old Mrs.
		Weasel Words are those words we use to give ourselves a hole to dive into if things go bad.
		Weasel Words are designed to remove certainty from the sentence in which they appear.
	nevermoreraven.com /index.php?p=20 (496 words)

	Brain Fertilizer: Weasel Words
		Second: Despite lots of words implying lots of knowledge on the performance of comdoms in a variety of situations, they can't seem to offer one, single hard number/percentage for the effectiveness of condoms in preventing any STD.
		"Essentially impermeable" is only a weasel word in the sense that it allows that condoms made of latex are woven with a mesh that is tight enough to 100% block the larger particles in bodily fluids.
		A better argument would be to attack health organizations over their total resistance to abstinence education, when recent studies have found that safe sex educational programs were no more effective than the abstinence approach.
	brain.mu.nu /archives/038988.php (900 words)

	JARGON, WEASEL WORDS, AND GOBBLEDYGOOK
		To a degree, this principle means the "you attitude." You don't always have to use the word, you, to tie in with the reader's experience.
		When you see the word, doublet, on a paper, it suggests you may be using too many words.
		Words and phrases continue to deaden the senses when you hear them repeated everywhere.
	www.csun.edu /~vcecn006/jargob.html (7169 words)

	weaselwords
		In other words he may or may not be good at anything or really know anything e.g.
		It's a word that I hate with a passion because it is akin to 'downsize'.
		I know it’s probably not a weasel word in the strictest sense, but it’s very popular with jargon junkies and a miserable use of the language nonetheless.
	www.weaselwords.com.au /words.htm (3275 words)

	sydneyanglicans.net - Weasel Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They are Verbicides—with the blood of good words on their hands.
		A weasel word a word or phrase used so as to sound important while saying nothing.
		Just as a weasel sucks the contents out of an egg, so the meaning is sucked out of the word, leaving only an empty shell.
	www.anglicanmediasydney.asn.au /culture/reading/weasel_words (432 words)

	Weasel words
		“Weasel word” is a metaphor based on the behaviour of real weasels – the habit they have of raiding chicken runs and stealing the eggs by sucking the contents so neatly that the eggs still look perfect, and it’s only when you pick up the egg that you realise it’s empty and useless.
		So a weasel word isn’t just euphemistic or tendentious; it’s specifically one that sucks the meaning out of the words next to it.
		Theodore Roosevelt popularised the phrase in a 1916 speech, saying 'You can have universal training or you can have voluntary training, but when you use the word 'voluntary' to qualify the word 'universal', you are using a weasel word: it has sucked all the meaning out of 'universal'.
	www.able2know.com /forums/about2517-110.html (670 words)

	NYT Weasel
		For many feminists, it may come as a shock to hear how unbothered many young women at the nation's top schools are by the strictures of traditional roles.
		You could as easily substitute the word some for every many and not gain or lose any information.
		Or substitute the word few and lose only the wind in Story's sails.
	www.bottomlinecom.com /nyt_weasel.htm (1014 words)

	Playing with a Full Deck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rosser Reeves of Ted Bates and Company often referred to something he saw in a TV script or an ad as "weasel words".
		Very often "weasel words" were added by the Legal Department at the agency, as they are in all responsible ad agencies.
		Example of a "Weasel word": Dropping WMD and substituting "weapons program" The word "program" is the "weasel" word.
	www.voccoquan.com /maxine/weasel.htm (210 words)

	weasel. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Any of various carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a long slender body, a long tail, short legs, and brownish fur that in many species turns white in winter.
		Inflected forms: wea·seled also wea·selled, wea·sel·ing, wea·sel·ling, wea·sels, wea·sels
		weasel out Informal To back out of a situation or commitment in a sneaky or cowardly manner.
	www.bartleby.com /61/9/W0070900.html (120 words)

	Bacon's Rebellion: Weasel Word Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the unlikely event that you do, I would expect it to very carefully worded, though undoubtedly rife with misspellings and bad grammar.
		Chapman is more frequently compared, in both appearance and action, as a "rat," but weasel is probably just as appropriate.
		Your follow up explanation of what you meant about VCAP, you accuse them for failing to investigate the candidates they are supporting, in their zeal to mount challenges against the tax-and-spend establishment.
	baconsrebellion.blogspot.com /2005/05/weasel-word-watch.html (3443 words)

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