paltering
NounSynonyms:
fibbing
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclearSynonyms: fibbingType of lying, prevarication
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“paltering” is listed under Palter.
Pal′ter intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Paltered; present participle & verbal noun Paltering.]
Origin: See Paltry.
1. To haggle. obsolete Randle Cotgrave
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.— William Shakespeare
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power.— Alfred Tennyson
3. To babble; to chatter. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54