Usually means: Deceive or lie using subtlety.
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  1. palter: Merriam-Webster
  2. palter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. palter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. palter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. palter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Palter, palter: Wordnik
  7. palter: Wiktionary
  8. palter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. palter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. palter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Palter, palter: Dictionary.com
  12. Palter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. palter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. palter: Rhymezone
  15. Palter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. palter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. palter: FreeDictionary.org
  18. palter: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. palter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. palter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. palter: Legal dictionary

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palter: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (palter)

verb:  To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
verb:  (now rare) To trifle.
verb:  To haggle.
verb:  To babble; to chatter.

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