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
But I won’t palter speech with you any longer.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Is it thus you would palter with the sacred texts?
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
Vocabulary lists containing palter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 5
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