誤魔化す
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Meanings
- to deceive, to cheat, to swindle
- to falsify, to misrepresent, to lie about, to tamper with, to fiddle, to doctor, to cook
- to evade (a question, taxes, etc.), to dodge, to gloss over (a mistake, fault, etc.), to smooth over, to get one's way out of (a difficult situation), to explain away
- to embezzle, to pocket
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Example sentences
He tried to gloss over his mistake by hiding the evidence, but it was quickly found out.
Evading taxes is a serious crime and is severely punished.
She glossed over her failure with skillful rhetoric, but her boss already knew the truth.
Instead of just masking the pain with medicine, you should properly have a doctor examine you.
The accountant who had been falsifying the books had their misconduct exposed by an internal audit.
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