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  1. 1. v. i. To haggle. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. i. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. i. To babble; to chatter. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 7. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or onworthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penalstatutes." Beau. & Fl. Source: adambom
  8. 8. v be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information Source: ecdict

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