Synonyms:
hedged, weasel-worded
Meaning: evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
Usage examples
But the crude physical labor which can compete only on the plane of automatic machines, must find its field of employment more and more hedged in.
"The carcase or live bait must be hedged round, and means adopted to guide the leopard across the string, by running out a short hedge on one side.
The back yard was hedged in (with part of the hedge growing right across the toes of the mountain), but there was a hole in the privet large enough to crawl through.