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palter

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɒltə/Part of speech verbSorted aelprtStarts with PEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

Word origin

Probably from Middle English *palter (“rag, trifle, worthless thing”), from Middle Low German palter (“rag, cloth”). More at paltry.

Used in a sentence

  • Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.
  • Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
  • But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.

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