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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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
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 Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
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
"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
