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Paltering

noun
1.
A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear.  Synonym: fibbing.





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"Paltering" Quotes from Famous Books



... that such things could be would spoil the whole world for the girl. She had to confess to herself that the customary paltering with the meaning of words that enables modern novels to be written about the damnedest things in the universe would either leave her mind uninformed, or call for a commentary—a rubric in the reddest of red letters. Even a resort to the brutal force of Oriental speech done into Jacobean ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan


Words linked to "Paltering" :   fabrication, lying, palter, prevarication


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