Synonyms of fudged

fudged 1 of 2

adjective

as in manipulated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• manipulated
• doctored
• engineered
• adulterated
• juggled
• concocted
• designer
• fabricated
• misleading
• process
• unauthentic
• manufactured
• tampered (with)
• phoney
• deceptive
• fraudulent
• forged
• cultured
• phony
• dummy
• bogus
• simulated
• faux
• counterfeit
• mock
• imitation
• synthetic
• pretend
• fake
• mimic
• sham
• substitute
• ersatz
• artificial
• pseudo
• feigned
• factitious
• spurious
• affected
• imitative
• false
• man-made
• brummagem
• pinchbeck

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• true
• natural
• genuine
• legitimate
• bona fide
• authentic
• valuable
• quality
• pure
• premium
• unadulterated

fudged

2 of 2

verb

past tense of fudge

1

as in weaseled

to avoid giving a definite answer or position

the candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weaseled
• waffled
• shook
• hedged
• equivocated
• ducked
• hemmed and hawed
• dodged
• beat about the bush
• pussyfooted
• evaded
• straddled the fence
• beat around the bush
• shunned
• eluded
• eschewed
• flip-flopped
• tergiversated
• sidestepped
• skirted
• circumvented
• yo-yoed
• bypassed
• quibbled
• shirked
• cavilled
• caviled
• straddled

2

as in cheated

to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal

she's been fudging on her taxes for years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheated
• finagled
• distorted
• falsified
• misrepresented
• chicaned
• cribbed
• misinterpreted
• misstated
• exaggerated
• elaborated
• embellished
• doctored
• evaded
• padded
• warped
• colored
• faked
• embroidered
• perverted
• tampered (with)
• twisted
• stretched
• hedged
• dodged
• magnified

3

as in distorted

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of

fudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position

Synonyms & Similar Words

• distorted
• misrepresented
• falsified
• cooked
• misinterpreted
• misstated
• complicated
• twisted
• obscured
• slanted
• perverted
• garbled
• colored
• warped
• confused
• censored
• bent
• misrelated
• disguised
• mistook
• masked
• lied
• camouflaged
• whitewashed
• veiled
• mistranslated
• dissembled
• misspoke
• belied
• misdescribed
• mystified
• bowdlerized
• glossed (over)
• fibbed
• confounded
• mixed (up)
• prevaricated
• equivocated
• paltered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• explained
• interpreted
• illustrated
• clarified
• cleared (up)
• illuminated
• spelled out
• deciphered