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palter

[pawl-ter] / ˈpɔl tər /


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You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2021

"And if you don't abide by those, then there's no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2017

"And if you don’t abide by those, then there’s no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want."

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2016

I choose to earn thine hate Of set will now, not palter with the mood Of mercy, and hereafter weep in blood.

From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes

He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring




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