paltering

"You see what all this paltering and delay has done?

They hate shuffling and equivocation, and the cause is damaged in the public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.

Then she rode back eagerly and required that thing of the King, and would listen to no paltering and no excuses.

This paltering Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit.

De Jars, for instance, would have allowed himself to be cut up into little pieces rather than have broken the promise he had given Quennebert a week ago, because it was given in exchange for his life, and the slightest paltering with his word under those circumstances would have been dastardly.