Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who palters or equivocates; an insincere dealer; a shifty person; a trifler; a trickster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who palters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
palters
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Examples
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"You are, instead, a palterer; and your life, apart from that fine song you made about me, is sheer waste."
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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He is but a drunkard in his cups, thou a palterer in sobriety. '
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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'I had rather she had played the villain than been such a palterer.'
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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In Djabal, at once enthusiast and impostor, Browning may seem, as often afterwards, to offer an apology for the palterer with truth; but in the interests of truth itself, he desires to study the strange phenomenon of the deceiver who would fain half-deceive himself.
Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904
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Take notice, I do not charge Edith as being worse in this respect than others: she may not be as bad, though it is no recommendation that she is the daughter of one who is a Machiavel on trifles and a palterer and piddler on important matters.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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"Are you at heart a poltroon or a palterer, cruel, dull, envious, full of hate?
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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