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PALTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paltering mean? 

PALTERING (noun)
  The noun PALTERING has 1 sense:

1. a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclearplay

  Familiarity information: PALTERING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PALTERING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fibbing; paltering

Hypernyms ("paltering" is a kind of...):

fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

Derivation:

palter (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)


 Context examples 


Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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