idioms - What's a verb that means carefully crafting language to avoid future accusations of hypocrisy?


Examples:



  • Any time that you're ____ing, you should probably reconsider your actions.

  • To the astute, the ____ing was disgusting behavior - to the average person, it just sounded sensible.

  • I couldn't reveal the whole story, so I just ____ed, hoping that nobody would listen, those who listened would forget, and those who didn't forget would seem whiny and stuck in the past.


Prophylactic double-speak[ing] doesn't get to the heart of the hypocrisy.


Advocating for the Devil seems too well-intentioned.


False im-moralizing just confusing.


Temporary/transient normalization is too buzz-wordy.




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