palter

The word “palter” has 2 syllables: pal-ter

It's pronounced as /ˈpɔːltər/


What is synonym and antonym for palter?

In the thesaurus, “palter” has 32 synonyms and 4 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for palter along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for palter

Antonyms for palter

  • agree
  • be honest
  • concur
  • tell the truth

Meanings of palter

  • verb
    1. To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
    2. To trifle.
    3. To haggle.
    4. To babble; to chatter.

Example Sentences

  • Politicians often palter with the truth to avoid taking responsibility.
  • It's frustrating when people try to palter instead of being straightforward.
  • The suspect attempted to palter during the interrogation, but the detectives saw through his lies.
  • Journalists have a responsibility not to palter with the facts in their reporting.
  • True integrity means refusing to palter even when it's convenient to do so.

On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to palter, such as: agree, argue, babble, bargain, barter, be honest, bicker.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • craft
  • create
  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
  • devise
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
  • make like
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • misreport
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • retrofit
  • set up
  • shape
  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • traduce
  • trick
  • trump up
  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

haggle

  • accommodation
  • accord
  • agreement
  • argue
  • arrangement
  • bargain
  • barter
  • beat down
  • bicker
  • buy
  • cavil
  • chaffer
  • clash
  • comparison shop
  • compromise
  • concession
  • concurrence
  • consensus
  • cut a deal
  • deal
  • dicker
  • dispute
  • exchange
  • fight
  • give-and-take
  • hammer out a deal
  • hassle
  • hawk
  • horse trade
  • horse-trade
  • make a deal
  • mediation
  • negotiate
  • negotiation
  • palter
  • peddle
  • purchase
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • settlement
  • squabble
  • trade
  • treaty
  • understanding
  • wheel and deal
  • wrangle

lain

  • BS
  • avoided
  • awaited
  • be
  • be beside
  • be buried
  • be established
  • be even
  • be fixed
  • be found
  • be interred
  • be level
  • be located
  • be on
  • be placed
  • be prone
  • be recumbent
  • be seated
  • be smooth
  • be supine
  • be untruthful
  • bear false witness
  • been
  • beguile
  • belong
  • beset
  • born
  • borne
  • break promise
  • bull
  • commanded
  • con
  • concoct
  • couch
  • coursed
  • crossed
  • cut
  • deceive
  • delude
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dupe
  • dwelled
  • dwelt
  • eluded
  • equivocate
  • evaded
  • exaggerate
  • exist
  • extend
  • extended
  • fabricate
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fib
  • followed
  • forswear
  • frame
  • fudge
  • go back on
  • go to bed
  • gone
  • have its seat in
  • headed
  • hid
  • hidden
  • holed up
  • hung around
  • invent
  • lain low
  • laze
  • led
  • lie down
  • loll
  • lounge
  • lurked
  • make believe
  • malign
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • misinstruct
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • misstate
  • nap
  • occupy
  • overdraw
  • overlooked
  • palter
  • passed
  • perjure
  • pervert
  • phony
  • plant
  • posted
  • prevail
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • put on
  • put up a front
  • reach
  • recline
  • remain
  • remained
  • repose
  • reposed
  • resided
  • rest
  • rested
  • retire
  • run
  • sat
  • sat tight
  • siesta
  • skulked
  • sleep
  • slinked
  • slunk
  • sneaked
  • snow
  • snuck
  • soft-soap
  • spanned
  • sprawl
  • spread
  • stationed
  • stayed
  • stood
  • stretch
  • stretch out
  • string along
  • stuck around
  • tarried
  • traversed
  • turn in
  • victimize
  • waited

take issue

  • altercate
  • animadvert
  • argue
  • assail
  • assault
  • attack
  • balk
  • bar
  • battle
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bicker
  • bitch
  • blame
  • bleat
  • bombard
  • brawl
  • break with
  • bring action
  • bump heads
  • call in question
  • call into question
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • censure
  • challenge
  • check
  • clash
  • collide
  • combat
  • complain
  • conflict
  • confront
  • contend
  • contest
  • contradict
  • contrast
  • controversialize
  • controvert
  • counter
  • counterattack
  • crab
  • criticize
  • croak
  • cross
  • dare
  • debate
  • decry
  • defy
  • demonstrate
  • demur
  • denounce
  • deny
  • deprecate
  • differ
  • disaccord
  • disagree
  • disapprove
  • discept
  • discord
  • disobey
  • disparage
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • divide
  • encounter
  • except
  • expose
  • expostulate
  • face
  • face down
  • fall out
  • feud
  • fight
  • find fault
  • fly in the face of
  • frown at
  • frown upon
  • fuss
  • gag
  • gainsay
  • go after each other
  • go at it
  • go for the jugular
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • haggle
  • hassle
  • have words
  • hinder
  • hit a clinker
  • hit a sour note
  • holler
  • inveigh
  • jar
  • jump on
  • keen
  • kick
  • lay into
  • let have it
  • lock horns
  • logomachize
  • maunder
  • moan
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neutralize
  • nonconcur
  • not countenance
  • object
  • oppose
  • palter
  • pick at
  • prevent
  • protest
  • protest against
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • rain
  • rebel
  • recriminate
  • remonstrate
  • repine
  • resist
  • reverse
  • rip
  • row
  • run counter to
  • scold
  • scrap
  • scream
  • search out
  • set to
  • shoot down
  • skirmish
  • sound off
  • spar
  • spat
  • speak against
  • squabble
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stand up to
  • stick
  • sue
  • take a stand
  • take exception
  • take on
  • taunt
  • thwart
  • turn the tables
  • vary
  • wail
  • war
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • withstand
  • wrangle
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl
  • zap

yo-yo

  • about-face
  • act reciprocally
  • airhead
  • alter
  • alternate
  • any way the wind blows
  • arbitrary
  • ass
  • assort
  • be indecisive
  • be irresolute
  • be unable to decide
  • be undecided
  • be unlike
  • beast
  • bend
  • berk
  • birdbrain
  • blockhead
  • blow hot and cold
  • blowing hot and cold
  • bonehead
  • boob
  • booby
  • boor
  • born fool
  • bottom out
  • bubblehead
  • bubbleheaded
  • budge
  • buffoon
  • buoyant
  • butt
  • bypass
  • cad
  • capricious
  • careen
  • careless
  • cavil
  • change
  • change gears
  • change mind
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • character
  • charley
  • charlie
  • cheating
  • chowderhead
  • chucklehead
  • chump
  • churl
  • circumvent
  • clod
  • clodpate
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • clot
  • clown
  • cluck
  • clunk
  • codger
  • come and go
  • contrary
  • convert
  • cook
  • coquettish
  • crackbrain
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • creep
  • cretin
  • crotchety
  • cuckoo
  • cuddie
  • cuddy
  • cur
  • daredevil
  • deadhead
  • deliberate
  • depart
  • deviate
  • dial back
  • differ
  • digress
  • dilly-dally
  • dim bulb
  • dimwit
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • dingbat
  • dip
  • dipstick
  • disagree
  • dislocate
  • displace
  • dissent
  • disturb
  • dither
  • divaricate
  • diverge
  • diversify
  • divide
  • do up
  • dodge
  • dodo
  • dolt
  • donkey
  • doofus
  • dope
  • dork
  • double-crossing
  • drift
  • duck
  • dullard
  • dum-dum
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbbell
  • dumbhead
  • dumdum
  • dummkopf
  • dummy
  • dunce
  • dunderhead
  • dupe
  • ebb and flow
  • effervescent
  • elastic
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • erratic
  • eschew
  • evade
  • every which way
  • exchange
  • expansive
  • faithless
  • falter
  • fanciful
  • fathead
  • fault
  • featherbrain
  • featherhead
  • fence-straddle
  • fickle
  • fill in for
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • flexible
  • flicker
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • flutter
  • follow
  • follow in turn
  • fool
  • freakish
  • frivolous
  • fudge
  • gaga
  • gander
  • gawk
  • gay
  • git
  • go up and down
  • golem
  • goof
  • goon
  • goose
  • half-wit
  • halt
  • hammerhead
  • hardhead
  • hedge
  • heel
  • helter-skelter
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • hover
  • humorsome
  • idiot
  • iffy
  • ignoramus
  • imbecile
  • impulsive
  • incline
  • inconstant
  • inflect
  • interchange
  • intersperse
  • irregular
  • irrepressible
  • irresolute
  • jackass
  • jerk
  • jughead
  • kinky
  • know-nothing
  • knucklehead
  • kook
  • lamebrain
  • laughingstock
  • lean
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loggerhead
  • loon
  • loony
  • loser
  • lubricious
  • lummox
  • lump
  • lunatic
  • lunkhead
  • lurch
  • mad
  • madman
  • madwoman
  • meathead
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • mockery
  • modify
  • mome
  • monkey
  • moody
  • mooncalf
  • moron
  • movable
  • move
  • move around
  • move over
  • mug
  • mutable
  • mutate
  • mutt
  • natural
  • nimrod
  • nincompoop
  • ninny
  • ninnyhammer
  • nit
  • nitwit
  • noddy
  • noodle
  • notional
  • numbskull
  • numskull
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • oaf
  • odd
  • oddball
  • oscillate
  • palter
  • part
  • pause
  • pea brain
  • pendulate
  • permutate
  • picky
  • pinhead
  • prat
  • protean
  • pulsate
  • punchy
  • pussyfoot
  • pussyfoot around
  • quibble
  • quicksilver
  • quirky
  • quiver
  • range
  • ratbag
  • rearrange
  • recalibrate
  • reel
  • relieve
  • relocate
  • remove
  • replace
  • reposition
  • resilient
  • rise and fall
  • rock
  • roll
  • rotate
  • run hot and cold
  • sap
  • saphead
  • scatterbrain
  • schlemiel
  • schlub
  • schlump
  • schnook
  • screwball
  • seesaw
  • separate
  • shake
  • shift
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shilly-shally
  • ship
  • shirk
  • shlemiel
  • shlub
  • shuffle
  • shun
  • sidestep
  • simp
  • simpleton
  • skirt
  • skunk
  • slippery
  • snake
  • sneaking
  • spasmodic
  • spirited
  • sprightly
  • stagger
  • stinker
  • stir
  • stock
  • straddle
  • stupe
  • stupid
  • stupid person
  • substitute
  • swap places
  • sway
  • swerve
  • swing
  • switch over
  • tack
  • take turns
  • teeter
  • temperamental
  • tergiversate
  • thickhead
  • ticklish
  • totter
  • transfer
  • transform
  • transmogrify
  • transpose
  • tremble
  • trim
  • turkey
  • turn
  • turn around
  • turn the corner
  • turn the tables
  • two-timing
  • uncertain
  • undulate
  • unequable
  • unfaithful
  • unpredictable
  • unreasonable
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrue
  • up and down
  • up-and-down
  • vacillate
  • vacillating
  • vagarious
  • variable
  • variegate
  • vary
  • veer
  • vibrate
  • villain
  • volatile
  • waffle
  • waffling
  • wave
  • waver
  • wavering
  • wayward
  • weasel
  • weave
  • weirdo
  • whiffle
  • whimsical
  • witling
  • wobble
  • woodenhead
  • yahoo
  • zany

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