'Palter' definitions:
Definition of 'palter'
(from WordNet)
verb
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter]
Definition of 'Palter'
From: GCIDE
- Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
- 1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. [1913 Webster]
- Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Palter'
From: GCIDE
- Palter \Pal"ter\, v. t. 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'palter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- huckster,
- hum and haw,
- lie,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- parry,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- split hairs,
- tergiversate,
- waffle,
- weasel