fudge
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Synonyms for fudge
Synonyms: Verb
equivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel
Synonyms: Noun
applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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Examples of fudge in a Sentence
Verb
Politicians have been known to fudge the issues. The treasurer fudged the figures. It was later discovered that the researchers had fudged their data.Noun
We bought three kinds of fudge. His response to these charges has been a series of denials and fudges.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
In The Associates, which was never published, a confident young Tampa mortgage broker named Christian Locke starts out fudging numbers before eventually expanding to tax evasion, wire fraud, and bank fraud. — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, "The True-Crime Writer in Cellblock B4," 16 July 2019 Paper logs could be fudged pretty easily, but not the ELD, which is wired to the truck’s engine and has a display screen visible to the driver. — Richard Lardner, Twin Cities, "Trump administration moves to ease drive-time rules for truckers," 1 July 2019 Paper logs could be fudged pretty easily, but not the ELD, which is wired to the truck's engine and has a display screen visible to the driver. — Richard Lardner, chicagotribune.com, "Trump administration seeks to relax limits on truckers’ drive time," 1 July 2019 His rhythms have been fudged; his operas have become occasions for vulgar high-note battles rather than displays of refinement, subtle vocalism and meticulous wedding of text and music. — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, "Review: Details Matter in Riccardo Muti’s Precise ‘Aida’," 23 June 2019 Then Billi fudges the truth about something, and so on. — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, "‘The Farewell’ review: Playing a delicate game of Chinese family charades," 12 July 2019 Sony has also fudged with its console’s capabilities from the earliest days of the PlayStation. — Sam Byford, The Verge, "A brief history of cutdown game consoles," 11 July 2019 In the view of a former senior EPA transportation engineer, Jeff Alson, the administration’s claims of environment leadership are ‘‘truly Orwellian.’’ Alson has accused the administration of fudging data to support easing vehicle mileage standards. — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, "President Trump raises eyebrows in promoting his environment record,"