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UK
/fˈʌdʒ/
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[ US /ˈfədʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈfədʒ/ ]
NOUN
- soft creamy candy
VERB
-
tamper, with the purpose of deception
falsify the data
cook the books
Fudge the figures -
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
They tend to evade their responsibilities
he evaded the questions skillfully
He dodged the issue
she skirted the problem
How To Use fudge In A Sentence
- And those doozies are just a couple of things that have been left out of or fudged in a single document.
- A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.
- Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
- Before then, she may deny both sides the no-deal outcome they crave with more fudge and mudge. Times, Sunday Times
- Turn the fudge onto the cutting board and cut into squares.
- The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes. From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
- Mackinac Island is known for fudge made with only the finest and freshest ingredients.
- I've got a good recipe for fudge.
- At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
- Things don't get better when I ask about dessert at the bar, and the barman confers with his superiors before revealing that all they've got left is hot chocolate fudge cake.