About The Word Palter
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Palter
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What's The Definition Of Palter?
[v] be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synonyms | Synonyms for Palter: equivocate | prevaricate | tergiversate Related Terms | Find terms related to Palter: around the bush | back and fill | bargain | beat about | beg the question | bicker | boggle | cavil | chaffer | choplogic | dicker | dodge | duck | equivocate | evade | evade the issue | falsify | fence | fib | hedge | hem and haw | higgle | huckster | hum and haw | lie | mince the truth | mince words | mystify | nitpick | obscure | parry | pick nits | prevaricate | pussyfoot | quibble | shift | shuffle | shy | sidestep | split hairs | tergiversate | waffle | weasel See Also | misinform | mislead Palter In Webster's Dictionary \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paltered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Paltering}.] [See {Paltry}.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not
palter. --Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor
paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
\Pal"ter\, v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] ``Palter out your time in the penal statutes.'' --Beau. & Fl. |
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