palter

Example Sentences

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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

To palter with reform, to listen to a word about the rights of the masses, was to his mind to parley with anarchy.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

“Tell me the truth and don’t palter with me,” he thundered in his harsh, raucous tones.

From The Intriguers by Le Queux, William