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fudge

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fudge

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • I was starting to realize that Grandpa's tales about when he was a boy were a lot of fudge.
Synonyms of fudge

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to fudge

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of fudge

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

fudge

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of fudge

1 to avoid giving a definite answer or position
  • The candidate wouldn't say whether he was for or against the issue but just fudged.
Synonyms of fudge

equivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel
Words Related to fudge

flip-flop, yo-yo

dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirt

bypass, circumvent

cavil, quibble

straddle
Phrases Synonymous with fudge

beat around the bush (or about), hem and haw, straddle the fence
2 to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
  • She's been fudging on her taxes for years.
Synonyms of fudge

cheat, chicane, finagle
Words Related to fudge

crib

color, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

doctor, fake, tamper (with)

elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, stretch

dodge, evade, hedge
3 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
  • Tom fudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position.
Synonyms of fudge

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Words Related to fudge

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash

bowdlerize, censor

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)

mystify, obscure

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
Near Antonyms of fudge

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

decipher

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