palter
11palter with the truth — index distort Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
12palter with — trifle with. → palter …
13palter — intransitive verb (paltered; paltering) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1600 1. to act insincerely or deceitfully ; equivocate 2. haggle, chaffer Synonyms: see lie • palterer noun …
14palter — palterer, n. /pawl teuhr/, v.i. 1. to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery. 2. to bargain with; haggle. 3. to act carelessly; trifle. [1530 40 in sense to speak indistinctly, perh. alter. of FALTER in same sense, with p… …
15palter — Synonyms and related words: around the bush, back and fill, bargain, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, chaffer, choplogic, dicker, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, falsify, fence, fib, hedge, hem and haw, higgle …
16palter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. equivocate; haggle; trifle. See barter, falsehood, unimportance. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To stray from truthfulness or sincerity: equivocate, prevaricate, shuffle. See TRUE. 2. To argue… …
17palter — bough. Ps. lxxix. 12; s. q. if ‘paltres’ be not == ‘palm trees.’ Lat. palmites. See the V. L …
18palter — pal·ter || pÉ”ËltÉ™(r) v. cheat, defraud, swindle; treat disrespectfully, treat in a derisive manner …
19palter — v. n. Equivocate, shuffle, dodge, haggle, shift, quibble, evade, prevaricate, trifle …
20palter — v 1. lie, stretch the truth, prevaricate, fib, Inf. talk through one s hat, Inf. tell the big lie, Inf. speak with forked tongue; mince words, not tell the whole truth or story; equivocate, quibble, Sl. waffle, fudge, beat around or about the… …
