Definitions for palters

palters pal·ter

Spelling: [pawl-ter]
IPA: /ˈpɔl tər/

Palters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 386 anagrams from letters in palters (aelprst).

Definitions for palters

verb (used without object)

  1. to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
  2. to bargain with; haggle.
  3. to act carelessly; trifle.

Origin of palters

1530-40 in sense “to speak indistinctly,” perhaps alteration of falter in same sense, with p- from palsy1

Examples for palters

She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come.

When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth.

It must not, like the witches in Macbeth, "palter in a double sense."

He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this.

Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth.

It is in vain to palter with our conscience: there are not two honours—two honesties.

The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that.

Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other.

His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment.

Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath?

Word Value for palters
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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