0 past simple and past participle of fudge --
1 to avoid making a decision or giving a clear answer about something: --
The issue cannot be fudged by saying that it is private legislation.
He should be there to show other countries how serious the issue is and that it cannot be fudged.
And the further fact of the matter is that this issue cannot indefinitely be fudged.
I suspect that these figures have been fudged.
He exposed the degree to which the figures had been "fudged".
The choice was fudged, and the ambiguity remains.
But these matters are fudged somehow in the definition that is already in place.
Or is that issue to be fudged by checks and balances provided by the assembly?