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

Others might falter on the way; might palter with the truth; might parlay with the enemy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

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