0 present participle of fudge
1 to avoid making a decision or giving a clear answer about something:
Unfortunately, some current statistics provide suggestive evidence that fudging in the application of current standards is occurring.
With enough fudging, and enough ignoring of inherencies in one's basic material, anything can be transformed into anything else.
Allow ' 'fudging' ' the numbers by which a country's economic performance is evaluated so that when facing difficulties a national government can accommodate multiple political and economic priorities.
If that is so, it is not a credible bus stop: it is what might be called fudging.
No amount of fudging the figures, glossy brochures or spin doctoring will conceal that fact.
We have a deep suspicion of the faceless men in back offices who think they can solve our problems by fudging words.
This proposal, however, is fudging the issue at considerable expense and it will not work in the relevant period of time.
There is no reneging or fudging the issue.