palter
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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
To palter or hesitate is to show that she is there: to refuse to swear is equivalent to a betrayal.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
I never mistrusted for a moment that statesmen of high repute could in so perilous an hour, upon so grave a question, palter with words in a double sense.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing palter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 5
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