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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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She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come.
He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this.
Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth.
Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other.
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.
The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that.

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