palter
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But man crouches and blushes, Absconds and conceals; He creepeth and peepeth, He palters and steals; Infirm, melancholy, Jealous glancing around, An oaf, an accomplice, He poisons the ground.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
He often palters, with himself as well as others, in a double sense.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
He never palters with right; he enters into no truce with wrong; he admits of no compromise on such points.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
It palters with my conscience, blurs my thoughts Of duty, and confuses my ideas Of right and wrong.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas
"Can the dead return to life, or is it the evil one himself who thus palters with my sight and senses?"
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
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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