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Meanings of palter in English
Portuguese
pare de enrolar Catalan
tergiversar Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.
Usage of palter in English
1
I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.
2
They only make you forget Jehovah-youfools-youpoor, blind fools-topalter so!
3
Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details?
4
You may be cold enough to palter with fire that has burned you, Theodora.
5
When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth.
6
Here, then, thou shalt not palter with or elude me.
7
Temptations to palter with my conscience; victory over them.
8
We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility.
9
But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery.
10
But how could sir Harry palter so with himself?
11
Do not let us palter with each other, Hester!
12
Gentlemen must not palter in a double sense.
13
But I could not palter with the truth.
14
She could not speak out her very thought, and to palter with solemn words was impossible.
15
Don't palter any longer with the little rebel.
16
She faced the truth squarely, without palter.
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Palter through the time