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PALTER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they palter ... he / she / it palters
Past simple: paltered
Past participle: paltered
-ing form: paltering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synonyms:
beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "palter" is one way to...):
misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
paltering (a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear)
