[ US /ˈpɑɹɫi/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːli/ ]
NOUN
  1. a negotiation between enemies
VERB
  1. discuss, as between enemies
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How To Use parley In A Sentence

  • But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
  • But the Congress veteran, who was in the midst of hectic parleys connected with the ongoing crisis in the party, failed to make it for the function.
  • After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • In most situations you will be attacked by them before there is even an opportunity to parley.
  • Thus, their parleys tend to center on expressions of and responses to feelings, or what the author labels ‘rapport-talk’ (private conversation).
  • These informal parleys over our communication system keep us in good humour.
  • My next idea was to parley with one of our boys in blue, but damn, I hate talking to cops.
  • Catholic Ireland repudiated further parleying with the British political system from within and, in effect, gave up on conciliating Irish unionist opinion.
  • Fitzpatrick camped a comfortable three miles away and rode over to parley with the chief.
  • Then he began to parley with me, said he would make me any reasonable satisfaction.
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