fudged 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of fudgednext
as in manipulated

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fudged

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verb

past tense of fudge
1
as in weaseled
to avoid giving a definite answer or position the candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate

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as in cheated
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal she's been fudging on her taxes for years

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as in distorted
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of fudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudged
  1. cheated
  2. distorted
  3. misrepresented
  4. adulterated
  5. designer
Verb
  • The company has repeatedly sparred in court with former executives, including a 2017 suit in which longtime executive Sharon Ford claimed that the company had cheated her out of a $1 million bonus.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
  • These frustrations can be best summarized as the distinct feeling that guests are being cheated.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of cheated
Verb
  • The data that the central bank uses to make all sorts of decisions about the economy will be distorted as people recover.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The voice is distorted enough to give away that this couldn’t possibly be the real James, and yet, Isaac’s dogged determination to protect the creature is fueled by its haunting professions of love for the child.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • Most recently, Nance misrepresented the status of the investigation in a questionnaire sent to her by the League of Women Voters.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Just think of the serpent in the Garden of Eden who misrepresented God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil to entice the first humans to do just that.
    Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of misrepresented
Adjective
  • The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
Definition of adulterated
Adjective
  • One of them, Hip Optical, which touts designer eyewear at non-designer prices, opened earlier this year across from the Apple Store and near True Food Kitchen and BJ’s Brewhouse.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.
    Sha Hua, WSJ, 21 June 2022
Definition of designer
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