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palter

verb as in lie

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Example Sentences

But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery.

But her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances.

The Chorus hear it too; but they linger and palter, while each gives his grave sentence deliberately in his proper turn.

Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself.

Yancey, speaking for Alabama, refused to palter with any plan not built on the proposition that slavery was in itself right.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to palter, such as: babble, bargain, deceive, equivocate, falsify, and fib.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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