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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
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as in cheated
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
she's been fudging on her taxes for years
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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
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Recent Examples of fudged
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
Local police department statistics show violent crime in Washington has declined in recent years, but Trump has countered, without offering evidence, that the numbers were fudged.
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Darlene Superville,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
The last time Tesla tried to reward and incentivize Musk, a $56 billion pay package granted in 2018 tied to revenue and market-capitalization milestones was twice nixed by a Delaware court, which ruled the company had fudged its disclosures to shareholders.
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Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
4 Aug. 2025
If the final numbers were fudged, employees who worked on inputs to those numbers would realize that and speak up, Hall said.
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Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
Orange Lutheran reexamined the paperwork, found it had been fudged, self-reported its findings to the CIF-SS office and now is 2-6 overall going into Friday’s game against Santa Margarita.
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Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
Local police department statistics show violent crime in Washington has declined in recent years, but Trump has countered, without offering evidence, that the numbers were fudged.
—
Darlene Superville,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
The last time Tesla tried to reward and incentivize Musk, a $56 billion pay package granted in 2018 tied to revenue and market-capitalization milestones was twice nixed by a Delaware court, which ruled the company had fudged its disclosures to shareholders.
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Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
4 Aug. 2025
If the final numbers were fudged, employees who worked on inputs to those numbers would realize that and speak up, Hall said.
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Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudged
Adjective
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What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.
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Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
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The fans were cheated Sunday out of a chance to see an interesting pitching matchup between Shota Imanaga and Dylan Cease, the former Cubs farmhand and former White Sox pitcher.
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Looking the other way A 2020 study of 840 undergraduate college students found that 32% of them had cheated in some way on an exam.
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This has distorted access not only to concert tickets but also to everyday services such as train ticket reservations.
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With a staggering 70 shades (an upgrade from an already impressive 55 shades) and longer-wearing color pigments that don’t get distorted after a few hours, finding your shade match is a breeze.
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Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
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Other videos also misrepresented the earnings users could have made on parallel bets, the Journal's report found.
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Portraying New York state and the company as partners in a fraud on the public, the lawsuit said that the company and New York officials repeatedly misrepresented when the company's contract would begin, causing severe disruptions to patient care statewide.
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The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.
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And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.
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One of them, Hip Optical, which touts designer eyewear at non-designer prices, opened earlier this year across from the Apple Store and near True Food Kitchen and BJ’s Brewhouse.
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The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.
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“Fudged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fudged. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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