palter
verb (used without object)
to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
palterer
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a word derived from
palter.
Example Sentences
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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 Herman Melville
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 Madox Ford
"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 James Branch Cabell
Are you at heart a poltroon or a palterer, cruel, dull, envious, full of hate?
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Thou art a palterer and a cheat; thou hast lured me on through gay gardens to a gulf.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
