palter
IPA: pˈɔɫtɝ
verb
- To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
- (now rare) To trifle.
- To haggle.
- To babble; to chatter.
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Examples of "palter" in Sentences
- Day by day, he paltered.
- When she's upset, she palters.
- When he lies, he paltered as well.
- Palter is also an active composer.
- He had no thought of paltering with his duty.
- She would face the truth and not palter with it.
- He replaced the band's original drummer, Morris Palter.
- Even if you try to palter before God he will see it anyway.
- He would not consent to any paltering with justice, he would drive no bargain.
- I could notcie that she was nervous, because I could see that she was paltering.
- They need not palter with the stale and timid compromise and convention called Birth-Control.
- “But,” continued the baron anxiously, “what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?”
- “How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.”
- Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself.
- He smoked while the walker extolled his cloths, slipping his head between the rails of ready-mades and his palter inside his patter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.