palterer
- a word derived from palter.
Example Sentences
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Thou art a palterer and a cheat; thou hast lured me on through gay gardens to a gulf.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
He can get around it, evade it somehow, but that's the part of the timid and palterer, and sooner or later the superficial man is found out.
From Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College by Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth
Are you at heart a poltroon or a palterer, cruel, dull, envious, full of hate?
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"You are, instead, a palterer; and your life, apart from that fine song you made about me, is sheer waste."
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
For this King is such a palterer that without this knave at his back I might have had him down ten years ago.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
