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Fudging

Fudge \Fudge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.]

  1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

    Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.
    --N. Fairfax.

  2. To foist; to interpolate.

    That last ``suppose'' is fudged in.
    --Foote.

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fudging

vb. (present participle of fudge English)

Usage examples of "fudging".

One day, some nosy sociologist of science would be able to go through his work with a fine-toothed comb, searching for evidence of fudging and fraud.

Kissinger squeezed a terrible price out of Golda for that disengagement in the north, and now that we have done our part and pulled back on the Golan Heights, the Syrians are fudging on releasing prisoners and returning the dead.

Never mind the hedgings and fudgings, never mind the scholarly obfuscations.

The climate, geography, vegetation, and animal life of Pontian times are essentially as set forth in the novel—but geologists and paleobiologists will be quick to detect a few fudgings that I hope can be forgiven in the spirit of good fun.