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What does palter mean?

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Verb
  1. To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
  2. (now rare) To trifle.
  3. To haggle.
  4. To babble; to chatter.
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He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.
And I would warn you, sir, that if you palter with the truth in such little matters you may darken your more important statements with suspicion.
He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this.
She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come.
His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment.
When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth.

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