palter

How To Use palter In A Sentence

• So to hold is near to saying that we have been paltering with justice.
• What a paltering - what a childish paltering - unworthy of a schoolboy - is his solemn denial that the Pilgrims sailed for New England because they were persecuted.
• Don't palter with this question, answer it properly.
• Obstinate and fatuous to the last, they dallied and paltered on the fatal ground, until sudden, blinding, inevitable catastrophe fell upon them from all sides at once, and swept them out of existence as a military force. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
• It is the worse, then, when he palters with the terms of banishment, allowing Bolingbroke to return in six years, Mowbray never.
• The word "paltering" I reject, as vague; as to "tentative," he must show that I was tentative in my sermons; and he has eight volumes to look through. Apologia pro Vita Sua
• By her negative attitude to so many points of Catholic doctrine she has paltered with the truth, She has by God's Providence retained the bare essentials of Catholicity and preserved the canonical succession of her bishops. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• And yet (the fact is palpable) the Democrats are paltering. David Bromwich: Iran, the Decider, and the Enablers
• But while the English authorities quibbled, paltered, and delayed -- with a little evasion, a little extra red-tapism, a little judicious procrastination -- the days of Kinmont Stories of the Border Marches
• But the oracle on this occasion had "paltered" with him in a double sense. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History