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v. - Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

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  • But her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances.
  • They need not palter with the stale and timid compromise and convention called Birth-Control.
  • “How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.”
  • “But,” continued the baron anxiously, “what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?”
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