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intransitive verb
[no object]archaic1Equivocate or prevaricate in action or speech.
‘if you palter or double in your answers, I will have thee hung alive in an iron chain’- ‘He is the patron saint of fibbing (also known as paltering).’
- ‘Too much paltering in journalism is fatal to a writer's development.’
- ‘What a paltering - what a childish paltering - unworthy of a schoolboy - is his solemn denial that the Pilgrims sailed for New England because they were persecuted.’
prevarication, vagueness, qualification, ambiguity, uncertainty, ambivalence, indecision, doubt2palter withTrifle with.
‘this great work should not be paltered with’- ‘He sought - and found - a man who paltered with the truth and monkeyed with the work of officials.’
- ‘It is the worse, then, when he palters with the terms of banishment, allowing Bolingbroke to return in six years, Mowbray never.’
- ‘So to hold is near to saying that we have been paltering with justice.’
- ‘Paltering with "God's truth," then, is playing fast and loose with the metonyms that may be interpreted authoritatively only by the patriarchy.’
treat in a cavalier fashion, treat lightly, treat frivolously, treat casually, play ducks and drakes with
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘mumble or babble’): of unknown origin.
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