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

The last thing to have entered her mind would have been to attempt to mitigate her offence by lying; she would not even palter with disingenuousness.

From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest

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

From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony