FUDGING Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

fudging 1 of 2

noun

as in misrepresentation

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verb

present participle of fudge

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

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as in cheating

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

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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

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Noun

The primary visual trickery comes in the form of slowed or accelerated film stock, rather than obvious digital fudging. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025 But the number-fudging didn’t end there. — Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025

Verb

Like, in the movie version, the person playing Raffensperger might be fudging results while eating his catered lunch. — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026 For some of these inquiries, the read-in-between-the-lines accusation was that Neon is fudging the numbers. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026 No more tiny little pencils – or fudging those tallies. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026 Meanwhile, Charlotte’s husband is debriefing with Shaw, while obviously fudging the details of Pauly’s death. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025 Kennedy accused Monarez of fudging the reason she was dismissed. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025 This can be done daily, making the sensors timely and not subject to fudging or underreporting. — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Trump alleged over Truth Social that the District has been fudging statistics to create the appearance that crime was on the decline. — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudging

Noun

The history of disability discourse in the movies is one usually filled with trauma and misrepresentation.

— Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
The law permits the government to seek denaturalization when citizenship was illegally obtained or secured through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of misrepresentation

Verb

Settlement talks collapsed in late August after Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting their discussions.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
At that public meeting, several parents said Adams should have been fired for misleading them and misrepresenting the condition of the Earl Warren ATP facilities.

— Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of misrepresenting

Noun

Hunterbrook wrote another story questioning the hedging practices of the company.

— Alex Sherman, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
But ambiguity typically plays to the advantage of the stronger party; such hedging from Washington was as good as an explicit endorsement of the Israeli position.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hedging

Verb

But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of distorting

Noun

In these structures, a thin ruthenium metal film formed selectively on the MoSe₂ regions, demonstrating another way to control material placement during semiconductor fabrication.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Before any physical fabrication starts, cell engineers use virtualization throughout the process.

— John Voelcker, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026

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