Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a palterly manner.
- Mean; paltry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Obs. or Prov. Eng. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Mean ;paltry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 50: February 1666-67 Samuel Pepys 1668
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It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1666/67 Pepys, Samuel 1667
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But we have 'paltering' and 'palterly'.p. 232 _Hoggerds.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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