fudging
present participle offudge
| 单词 | fudging |
| 释义 | fudging present participle offudge fudge verb[T] uk/fʌdʒ/us/fʌdʒ/toavoidmaking adecisionor giving aclearanswerabout something: Thegovernmentcontinuesto fudgetheissuebyrefusingto giveexactfigures. Avoiding action
Examplesoffudgingfudging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Unfortunately, some current statistics provide suggestive evidence thatfudgingin the application of current standards is occurring. From theCambridge English Corpus With enoughfudging, and enough ignoring of inherencies in one's basic material, anything can be transformed into anything else. From theCambridge English Corpus Allow ' 'fudging' ' the numbers by which a country's economic performance is evaluated so that when facing difficulties a national government can accommodate multiple political and economic priorities. From theCambridge English Corpus If that is so, it is not a credible bus stop: it is what might be calledfudging. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 No amount offudgingthe figures, glossy brochures or spin doctoring will conceal that fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a deep suspicion of the faceless men in back offices who think they can solve our problems byfudgingwords. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This proposal, however, isfudgingthe issue at considerable expense and it will not work in the relevant period of time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no reneging orfudgingthe issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am notfudgingthe issue in any way, but the time is not yet opportune. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be ashamed of government by stealth and lawmaking byfudging. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question offudgingthis in the same way as various other issues were fudged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If there is anyfudgingon it, we should not go forward. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not much room forfudgingover the issues of sovereignty, a common monetary policy or a single currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That may have something to do with the trimming of policies and thefudgingof decisions which goes on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be nofudgingabout never using them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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