weaseling
The word “weaseling” has 3 syllables: wea-sel-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈwizəlɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for weaseling?
In the thesaurus, “weaseling” has 28 synonyms.
Here are synonyms for weaseling along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for weaseling
- beating about the bush
- beating around the bush
- bypassing
- caviling
- cavilling
- circumventing
- dodging
- ducking
- eluding
- equivocating
- eschewing
- evading
- flip-flopping
- fudging
- hedging
- hemming and hawing
- pussyfooting
- quibbling
- shaking
- shirking
- shunning
- sidestepping
- skirting
- straddling
- straddling the fence
- tergiversating
- waffling
- yo-yoing
Meanings of weaseling
- verb
- To achieve by clever or devious means.
- To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
- To engage in clever or devious behavior.
Example Sentences
- Stop weaseling out of your share of the work.
- His constant weaseling made everyone distrust him.
- She’s always weaseling into conversations she wasn’t invited to join.
- They caught him weaseling around the rules again.
- Instead of facing the problem, he kept weaseling away from it.
On this page you'll find 28 synonyms or another words to weaseling, such as: beating about the bush, beating around the bush, bypassing, caviling, cavilling, circumventing, dodging.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
waffling
- alternating
- ambivalent
- beating about the bush
- beating around the bush
- betwixt and between
- blowing hot and cold
- borderline
- bypassing
- capricious
- caviling
- cavilling
- changeable
- changeful
- changing
- circumlocutory
- circumventing
- clouded
- confusing statement
- copious
- debatable
- deviating
- differing
- diffusive
- digressive
- discursive
- dithering
- divided
- dodge
- dodging
- doubtful
- doubting
- dubious
- dubitable
- ducking
- due
- dull
- eluding
- equivocal
- equivocal saying
- equivocating
- erratic
- eschewing
- evading
- evasion
- exuberant
- faltering
- fearful
- fickle
- fitful
- flexible
- flickering
- flip-flopping
- fluctuating
- fluid
- fudging
- halfhearted
- halting
- hedging
- hemming and hawing
- hesitant
- hesitating
- hot-and-cold
- iffy
- immature
- impartial
- impulsive
- in arrears
- in the middle
- incomplete
- inconclusive
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- intermittent
- irregular
- irresolute
- lavish
- lengthy
- long
- long-winded
- loose
- meandering
- mercurial
- misleading statement
- misleading word
- mobile
- moot
- mutable
- neutral
- not definite
- not sure
- of two minds
- on the fence
- on-the-fence
- open
- open to question
- oscillating
- outstanding
- overdue
- owing
- palaverous
- payable
- pendent
- pending
- problematic
- problematical
- profuse
- prolix
- protean
- pussyfooting
- quibbling
- rambling
- random
- redundant
- running hot and cold
- shaking
- shifting
- shifty
- shirking
- shunning
- sidestepping
- skirting
- slippery
- spasmodic
- spineless
- straddling
- straddling the fence
- suppressio veri
- temperamental
- tentative
- tergiversating
- ticklish
- timid
- torn
- unanswered
- uncertain
- unclear
- uncommitted
- unconcluded
- undecided
- undependable
- undetermined
- unequable
- uneventful
- unfinished
- unfixed
- unpaid
- unreliable
- unresolved
- unsettled
- unsolved
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- up for grabs
- up in the air
- vacillating
- vague
- variable
- varying
- verbose
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weak-kneed
- weaseling
- wimpy
- windy
- wishy-washy
- without guts
- wobbly
- yellow-bellied
- yo-yo
- yo-yoing