Synonyms for palter

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pawl-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɔl tər

Définition of palter

Origin : 1530s, "speak indistinctly," of unknown origin. It has the form of a frequentative, but no verb palt is known. Connection with paltry is uncertain. Hence "play fast and loose" (c.1600). Related: Paltered; paltering; palterer.

verb lie

Example sentences :

It is in vain to palter with our conscience: there are not two honours—two honesties.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that.
Extract from : « The Willoughby Captains » by Talbot Baines Reed

Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth.
Extract from : « Elissa » by H. Rider Haggard

It must not, like the witches in Macbeth, "palter in a double sense."
Extract from : « Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume III (of 20) » by Charles Sumner

She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come.
Extract from : « Name and Fame » by Adeline Sergeant

When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth.
Extract from : « Simon the Jester » by William J. Locke

He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this.
Extract from : « Hand and Ring » by Anna Katharine Green

His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment.
Extract from : « The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories » by Grant Allen

Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath?
Extract from : « Apologia pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Newman

Antonyms for palter

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