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fudgingverbpresent participle of fudge to avoid giving a definite answer or positionthe candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate equivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling flip-flopping, yo-yoingdodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirtingbypassing, circumventingcaviling(or cavilling), quibblingstraddling beating around the bush(or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence to use dishonest methods to achieve a goalshe's been fudging on her taxes for years cheating, chicaning, finagling cribbingcoloring, distorting, falsifying, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, twisting, warpingdoctoring, faking, tampering (with)elaborating, embellishing, embroidering, exaggerating, magnifying, padding, stretchingdodging, evading, hedging to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning offudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position bending, coloring, cooking, distorting, falsifying, garbling, misinterpreting, misrelating, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, slanting, twisting, warping misdescribing, misspeaking, mistranslatingbelying, camouflaging, disguising, dissembling, glossing (over), masking, veiling, whitewashingbowdlerizing, censoringcomplicating, confounding, confusing, mistaking, mixing (up)mystifying, obscuringequivocating, fibbing, lying, paltering, prevaricating clarifying, clearing (up), explaining, illuminating, illustrating, interpreting, spelling outdeciphering |