Example Sentences

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"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

How was Isabel to be acknowledged to the world, if his mother was to know nothing of that acknowledgment?—Short-sighted, miserable palterer and huckster, thou hast been playing a most fond and foolish game with thyself!

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

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

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