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• s  evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement

• Then they issued a weasel-worded joint communiqu.
• The new opinion, said he, was "a weasel-worded escape from a basically wrong decision.
• His opponents, none too sure of themselves, drafted a weasel-worded meeting call "for the purpose of creating a vacancy in the leadership.

• hedged

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• Huw Lewis in ic Wales
  But Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney AM Huw Lewis said the claims were "genuinely the best example of weasel-worded hot air I've ever heard", while Dai Havard, MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, dismissed Mr Clegg as a "public school toff".