paltering
- n a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
- v be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- Such language was diplomatic paltering, no doubt insisted on by that palterer par excellence, Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary and in private life Britain's highest feed lawyer.
- He had listened to paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controlstwo enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second .