pal·ter /ˈpɔltɚ/
 (vi.)含糊其辭,馬虎處理,討價還價,敷衍了事
 Pal·ter v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering.]
 1. To haggle. [Obs.]
 2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
 Romans, that have spoke the word,
 And will not palter.   --Shak.
 Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
 Nor paltered with eternal God for power.   --Tennyson.
 3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
 Pal·ter, v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] “Palter out your time in the penal statutes.”
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 palter
      v : be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or
          withhold information [syn: beat around the bush, equivocate,
           tergiversate, prevaricate]