Meaning of PALTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'poltur
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| | Definition: | | [v] be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information |
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| | Synonyms: | | equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| | See Also: | | misinform, mislead | |
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\Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paltered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Paltering}.] [See {Paltry}.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not
palter. --Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor
paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
\Pal"ter\, v. t.
To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on
worthless things. [Obs.] ``Palter out your time in the penal
statutes.'' --Beau. & Fl.
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| | Related Terms: | | around the bush, back and fill, bargain, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, chaffer, choplogic, dicker, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, falsify, fence, fib, hedge, hem and haw, higgle, huckster, hum and haw, lie, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, tergiversate, waffle, weasel |
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