Thesaurus: palter

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1. v. i. To haggle.
2. v. i. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
3. v. i. To babble; to chatter.
4. v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
5. v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
6. 1. To word/haggle">haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave. 2. To act in word/insincere">insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson. 3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.] To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penal statutes." Beau. & Fl.
7. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or onworthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penalstatutes." Beau. & Fl.
8. v be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information