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- Weasel_word abstract "A weasel word (also, anonymous authority) is an informal term for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific and/or meaningful statement has been made, when only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated, enabling the specific meaning to be denied if the statement is challenged.The use of weasel words to avoid making an outright assertion is synonymous to tergiversate. Weasel words can imply meaning far beyond the claim actually being made. Some weasel words may also have the effect of softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement through some form of understatement, for example using detensifiers such as \"somewhat\" or \"in most respects\".Weasel words can be used in advertising and in political statements, where encouraging the audience to develop a misleading impression of what was said can lead to advantages, at least in the short term (in the longer term, systematic deception is likely to be identified, with a loss of trust in the speaker).".
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- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Advertising.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Alcmene.
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- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ambiguity.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Category:Deception.
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- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_terminology.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Category:Propaganda_techniques_using_words.
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- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Edward_J._Ruppelt.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Essentially_contested_concept.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Euphemism.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Filler_(linguistics).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Fnord.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Galanthis.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Glittering_generality.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_modifier.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Henry_V_(play).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Hercules.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink If-by-whiskey.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Jargon.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Juno_(mythology).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Linguistic_relativity.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Lucina_(goddess).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Mandible.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Mantell_UFO_incident.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Multilingualism.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Newspeak.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Non-apology_apology.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Non-denial_denial.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Non_sequitur_(logic).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Ovid.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Passive_voice.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Political_correctness.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Psychological_manipulation.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Quantifier_(linguistics).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Simile.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Slang.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Spin_(public_relations).
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Subjunctive_mood.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink The_Buffalo_News.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Theodore_Roosevelt.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Weasel.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Wikipedia.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:cop-out.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:tergiversate.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink William_Shakespeare.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Winston_Churchill.
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLink Wooden_language.
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- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "Weasel word".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "Weasle Words".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "various Web sources".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "weasel phrases".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "weasel term".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "weasel word".
- Weasel_word wikiPageWikiLinkText "weasel words".
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- Weasel_word quote "*"A growing body of evidence..." *"People say..." *"It has been claimed that..." *"Critics claim..." *"Clearly..." *"It stands to reason that..." *"Questions have been raised..." *"I heard that..." *"There is evidence that..." *"Experience shows that..." *"the person may have..." *"It has been mentioned that..." *"Popular wisdom has it that..." *"Commonsense has it/insists that..." *"It is known that..." *"Officially known as..." *"It turns out that..." *"It was noted that..." *"Nobody else's product is better than ours." *"Our product is regarded as..." *"Award-winning" *"A recent study at a leading university..." *" came to be seen as..." *"Up to sixty percent..." *"More than seventy percent..." *"The vast majority..." *"Multilingual" *"Cross-platform" ¹It is important that real examples do not explain, at a later stage of the argument, what exactly is meant by "it turns out that"; the whole needs to be looked at before it can be decided that it is a weasel term.".
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- Weasel_word subject Category:Ambiguity.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Deception.
- Weasel_word subject Category:English_phrases.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Metaphors_referring_to_animals.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Pejoratives.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Political_terminology.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Propaganda_techniques_using_words.
- Weasel_word subject Category:Rhetorical_techniques.
- Weasel_word hypernym Term.
- Weasel_word type Argument.
- Weasel_word type Concept.
- Weasel_word type Redirect.