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Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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paltering
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Word definitions for paltering in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear [syn: fibbing ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering .] [See Paltry .] To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. prevarication; dishonest bargaining, haggling. vb. (present participle of palter English)
Usage examples of paltering.
So he walked to and fro on the heath outside the town, paltering with himself, struggling with himself, eating out his heart with eagerness, trying to believe that he was waiting for the night.
De Jars, for instance, would have allowed himself to be cut up into little pieces rather than have broken the promise he had given Quennebert a week ago, because it was given in exchange for his life, and the slightest paltering with his word under those circumstances would have been dastardly.
The hope for the future of South Africa is that they or their descendants may learn that that banner which has come to wave above Pretoria means no racial intolerance, no greed for gold, no paltering with injustice or corruption, but that it means one law for all and one freedom for all, as it does in every other continent in the whole broad earth.
The typical picayune paltering of a desk clerk, and I thought that would be an end to it.