paltered

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palter
To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions

I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is?’.

palter
{v} to shift, dodge, trifle, spend, squander
palter
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
palter
To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle
palter
To trifle
palter
To babble; to chatter
palter
{f} cheat, defraud, swindle; treat disrespectfully, treat in a derisive manner
palter
To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things
palter
To haggle
palter
To talk insincerely
paltered
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