fudge

Meanings

• soft creamy candy
• tamper, with the purpose of deception
  • "Fudge the figures"
• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Synonyms

circumvent, cook, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fake, falsify, hedge, manipulate, misrepresent, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt, wangle