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

He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline