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Noun: paltering  pol-tu-ring
  1. Telling small or unimportant lies
    "The child's paltering about eating cookies before dinner was harmless but still discouraged";
    - fibbing [informal]
Verb: palter  pol-tu(r)
Usage: archaic
  1. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
    "Stop paltering and tell me what really happened";
    - beat around the bush [informal], equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, beat about the bush [informal], weasel [informal]

Type of: disinform, fabrication, lying, misinform, mislead, prevarication

Encyclopedia: Paltering

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