How To Use Palter In A Sentence
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So to hold is near to saying that we have been paltering with justice.
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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.
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Don't palter with this question, answer it properly.
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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
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It is the worse, then, when he palters with the terms of banishment, allowing Bolingbroke to return in six years, Mowbray never.
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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
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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
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And yet (the fact is palpable) the Democrats are paltering.
David Bromwich: Iran, the Decider, and the Enablers
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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
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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
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How long I might have paltered, had no sound come from that room, I know not.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself.
Ayala's Angel
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They need not palter with the stale and timid compromise and convention called Birth-Control.
Vintage Distributism
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Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
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What I mean by "fostering day-to-day ignorance" is paltering with the truth for no reason at all, and in such a way as to make people stupider in their real lives.
Science goes to the movies
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Gilligan sought - and found - a man who paltered with the truth and monkeyed with the work of officials.
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Paltering with "God's truth," then, is playing fast and loose with the metonyms that may be interpreted authoritatively only by the patriarchy.
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He is the patron saint of fibbing (also known as paltering).
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Yet he was himself a very stern respecter of the hedgerows; sought safety and found dignity in the obvious path of conduct; and would palter with no simple and recognised duty of his epoch.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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“But,” continued the baron anxiously, “what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?”
The Talisman
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He sought - and found - a man who paltered with the truth and monkeyed with the work of officials.
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All the faltering, paltering and useless procrastinating by Hillary and her ilk have worked to delay any effective Democratic-backed change in the Iraq War, and, by extension, the reining-in of Cheney plans against Iran.
Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran
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He should not palter with the truth.
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“How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.”
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Too much paltering in journalism is fatal to a writer's development.
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By Rosh Hashanah some have the tradition to be stringent and try to eat only pas yisroel by that specific chag, but the halachah is clear, pas palter bread of the baker is kosher.
Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool
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Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams.
Chapter 19
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At various times during the fifteen years preceding the war, they had seen men of strong anti-slavery professions, with strong anti-slavery constituencies, "palter in a double sense" when intrusted with the duties of a representative in Congress, and fall from the faith, influenced by what were termed the blandishments of power, or as was sometimes more plainly said, corrupted by the gifts of patronage.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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But Burke's view of the constitution was a part of his belief with which he never paltered, and on which he surrendered his judgment to no man.
Burke
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Hesitant to do this thing which to him, by the strange standard of his warped code, spelled dishonour, he would and he would not; and while he paltered, was visited by an oddly vivid memory of the clear and candid eyes of Cecelia Brooke, seemed veritably to see them searching his own with their look of grieving wonder ... the eyes of one woman who had reckoned him worthy of her trust ....
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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The Shach seems to say on 115:20 that it is not like chalav akum, but rather, like pas akum the bread of the individual non-Jew, made at his or her house, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH WHAT I MENTIONED BEFORE, which was pas palter, bread of the baker.
Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool
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At Drury Lane, let him play his part, him and his thousand-fold cousinry; and welcome, so long as any public will pay a shilling to see him: but on the solid earth, under the extremely earnest stars, we dare not palter with him, or accept his tomfooleries any more.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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But we have 'paltering' and 'palterly'.p. 232 _Hoggerds.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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He smoked while the walker extolled his cloths, slipping his head between the rails of ready-mades and his palter inside his patter.
At Swim, Two Boys
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But he has paltered too long, and now the devil claims him for his own.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
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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 Benefit of the Doubt
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The time speedily arrived, however, when a persistence in this reticence would have involved me in an unworthy paltering with truth.
Essays
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If nations attempted to solve the problem as they did at The Hague they paltered and shuffled.
Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty
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“And thou, old man, if thou art insensible to threats of personal danger in this matter, remember, that if thou art found paltering with us, thy punishment will perhaps be more severe than any we can inflict upon thy person.”
Castle Dangerous
