| 词汇 | weaselly |
| 释义 | weaselly adjective disapproving(alsoweasely)uk /ˈwiː.zəl.i/ us /ˈwiː.zəl.i/ weasellyadjective (OF BEHAVIOUR)dishonest or not sincere, especially in order to get something or to avoid telling the truth: Instead of answering the lawyer's questions, the defendant tried to get away with weaselly evasions. You would never tolerate such weasely answers from anyone else. The lawyers used the same weaselly language when they issued a statement attacking the government. We kept waiting for the contractor to finish the job, but all he gave us was a bunch of weaselly excuses. Dishonest artificiality bad faith be rotten to the coreidiom bent cowboy dubiously false finagle fishy fly-by-night malfeasance mendacious mendaciously misleading misleadingly uncandid under false pretencesphrase underhand unreliability unreliable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Sly & devious weasellyadjective (OF APPEARANCE)(especially of a man) having small, sharp features that make you think of a weasel(= a small wild mammal with reddish-brown fur and a long thin body): His weaselly features cracked into a grin. Some weasely little man from the post office came to the house looking for you. When you looked carefully at him, you could see that his face was weaselly. A short, dark-haired man with a weasely expression was leaning over a microscope. They were crowded round a weasely looking guy that I immediately recognized from a newspaper photo. Dishonest artificiality bad faith be rotten to the coreidiom bent cowboy dubiously false finagle fishy fly-by-night malfeasance mendacious mendaciously misleading misleadingly uncandid under false pretencesphrase underhand unreliability unreliable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Sly & devious Related wordweasel |
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