palter

You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure.

Which brings us to Thursday’s main event, a hearing before the Senate committee that has already seen two Democratic truth-seekers demonstrate a Trumpian zest for paltering with the truth.

But if you say, "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the last month, that's paltering.

Though not a new term -- he says it's borrowed from the field of philosophy -- Rogers and his co-authors have co-opted the concept of paltering for the field of negotiation.

Rogers says the findings can also serve as a reminder, to everyone, to watch out for those who may try to use paltering against them.