Weasel Words and Politics Both Chaplin and Roosevelt were critiquing weasel words in political language, and over a century later, politicians still make heavy use of them.

As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900 ...

“Weasel word” has its roots in the early twentieth century. While Teddy Roosevelt popularized the term in a 1916 speech, he didn’t coin it as he claimed to have done.

To many, Walz’s use of the word misspoke came across as an attempt to weasel out of what was at best an embellishment and at worst an outright lie. The word misspoke has certainly long been used ...

Again — I have never seen a weasel. One type of weasel thing we need to know about is the idea of a “weasel word.” A weasel word (or weaselism) modifies a statement by lessening its impact — almost to ...

In particular, the terms weasel-words academically-based and research-based make my muscles tense up and my skin crawl, and ought to be banished forever from any kind of discourse.

Besides the “up to” tactic mentioned above, former marketing manager Gordon Pritchard gives us examples of other advertising weasel words in a piece at The-print-guide.blogspot.com.

November 10, 2023 Why Humanitarianism is a Weasel Word Binoy Kampmark Photograph Source: U.S. State Department – Public Domain ...

P. J. Connolly began writing for IT publications in 1997 and has a lengthy track record in both news and reviews. Since then, he's built two test labs from scratch and earned a reputation as the ...

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