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Definition of Paltering
1. Noun. A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear.
Generic synonyms: Fabrication, Lying, Prevarication
Derivative terms: Fib, Palter
Definition of Paltering
1. Verb. (present participle of palter) ¹
2. Noun. Prevarication; dishonest bargaining, haggling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paltering
1. palter [v] - See also: palter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paltering
Literary usage of Paltering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rome Or Reason: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience by Nathaniel Ramsay Waters (1888)
"... to Christianity itself; holding forth the good and paltering with the evil in
it; speaking of " the spirit of Christianity," &c., in this one-sided way. ..."
2. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then by John Henry Newman (1864)
"So far is certain, that he has not the majority with him. "In a tentative,
paltering way." The word "paltering ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"[Away with these paltering ... reckoning can spare any lewd or vain time for
corrupt pamphlets, or who of judgement will not cry, Away with these paltering ..."
4. The Puritans and Their Principles by Edwin Hall (1847)
"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 ..."
5. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then by John Henry Newman (1864)
"So far is certain, that he has not the majority with him. "In a tentative,
paltering way." The word "paltering " E reject, ..."
6. Editorials and Editorial-writing by Robert Wilson Neal (1921)
"The Mayor and Commissioners are paltering, and paltering, without making failure
less inevitable, will make it more distressing and costly to the people of ..."
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