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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential, Use, Tendencies
Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.