Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun paltering

1 sense of paltering

Sense 1
fibbing, paltering -- (a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear)
       => lying, prevarication, fabrication -- (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb palter

1 sense of palter

Sense 1
beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter -- (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
       => misinform, mislead -- (give false or misleading information to)