weasel

Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.

When he even pretended to be moderate on abortion with his weasel words around the Florida ban, anti-choice activists threw a fit.

In a series of tweets, he called Mr Vine a “weasel” and a “government shill” and said: “If you see this fella by a primary school call 999.”

"The field is replete with weasel words and unfortunately one of those is consciousness," says Prof Stevan Harnad of Quebec University.

“The U.S. has limited itself to blatant weasel words claiming that Julian can ‘seek to raise’ the First Amendment if extradited,” his wife, Stella Assange, said.