weasel words
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
InformalRegister
Words or phrases used to create a deliberately vague or misleading impression while appearing to say something definite.
The communiqué was riddled with weasel words such as 'wherever possible' that committed no one to anything.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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