Synonyms of fudging

fudging 1 of 2

noun

as in misrepresentation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• misrepresentation
• hedging
• fabrication
• enhancement
• puffery
• exaggeration
• hype
• amplification
• stretching
• hyperbole
• overstatement
• magnification
• padding
• elaboration
• embellishment
• superlative
• coloring
• embroidery
• embroidering
• caricature

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• understatement
• meiosis
• minimizing
• disparagement
• belittlement
• poor-mouthing

fudging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of fudge

1

as in weaseling

to avoid giving a definite answer or position

the candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weaseling
• shaking
• waffling
• hedging
• equivocating
• ducking
• beating about the bush
• dodging
• pussyfooting
• hemming and hawing
• beating around the bush
• evading
• straddling the fence
• tergiversating
• shunning
• eluding
• eschewing
• flip-flopping
• skirting
• shirking
• quibbling
• cavilling
• sidestepping
• yo-yoing
• circumventing
• caviling
• bypassing
• straddling

2

as in cheating

to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal

she's been fudging on her taxes for years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• finagling
• falsifying
• misrepresenting
• misstating
• distorting
• chicaning
• cribbing
• misinterpreting
• exaggerating
• evading
• embellishing
• doctoring
• elaborating
• warping
• padding
• faking
• tampering (with)
• twisting
• embroidering
• coloring
• hedging
• perverting
• stretching
• dodging
• magnifying

3

as in misrepresenting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• misrepresenting
• distorting
• misstating
• falsifying
• twisting
• misinterpreting
• cooking
• complicating
• obscuring
• slanting
• garbling
• perverting
• warping
• coloring
• bending
• confusing
• censoring
• misrelating
• masking
• mistaking
• disguising
• camouflaging
• dissembling
• fibbing
• misspeaking
• whitewashing
• lying
• mistranslating
• misdescribing
• prevaricating
• veiling
• mystifying
• glossing (over)
• equivocating
• bowdlerizing
• belying
• mixing (up)
• paltering
• confounding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• explaining
• interpreting
• illustrating
• clarifying
• clearing (up)
• illuminating
• spelling out
• deciphering