Sentence example with the word 'palter'

palter

around the bush, beg the question, chaffer, duck, falsify, hem and haw, lie, nitpick, prevaricate, shuffle, tergiversate

Definition v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

Last update: August 2, 2015


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"But," continued the baron anxiously, "what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace."   [verb]

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"Palter not with me, Sir Scot--it were ill for thy safety," said the irritable monarch.   [verb]

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Go speedily, else thou mayst stand and palter with me too long.   [Please select]

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He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.   [Please select]

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When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth.   [Please select]

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

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