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

This shows he is worthy of your esteem; and if he were to palter between the hope of all your fortune and the love of this girl, he would only deserve your contempt.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

In Freedom's name, in her's to whom we bow, In her great name, I charge ye, palter now With no traducer of your country's cause.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric