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Palaver

noun
1.
Flattery intended to persuade.  Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery.
2.
Loud and confused and empty talk.  Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric.
verb
(past & past part. palavered; pres. part. palavering)
1.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.  Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle.
2.
Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.  Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle.
3.
Have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds.





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"Palaver" Quotes from Famous Books



... and palaver as he may, it remains true that the Socialist Party of America teaches the same treasonable doctrines of violence and insurrection as the Russian Bolshevists, but in a more covert way. We have a sample in the pamphlet, "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat," put in evidence on January 27, 1920, ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
... point of all this palaver. Young Master Randall used also to come to my house. Now and then by chance they met there. They were good boy and ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... his mind for an answer, I had given him my address in St. James' Square, and had again mingled with the crowd. Alas! I was not fated to get back to Flora so easily! Mr. Robbie was in the path: he was insatiably loquacious; and as he continued to palaver I watched the insipid youths gather again about my idol, and cursed my fate and my host. He remembered suddenly that I was to attend the Assembly Ball on Thursday, and had only attended to-night by way of a preparative. This ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... havin' been Hymen's servant in the old days, and shows around the visitors, besides dustin' the mementoes—locks of his bloomin' 'air and the rest of the trash, I looked in to see how you was a-gettin' on after the palaver. If I'm not ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... story, small difficulties of speech or spelling will not readily daunt us in the time-honored pursuit of "what happens next"—certainly not if we know enough of our author to feel sure he will come to the point and tell us what happens next with the least possible palaver. We have a definite want and a certainty of being satisfied promptly. But with Spenser this satisfaction may, and almost certainly will, be delayed over many pages: and though in the meanwhile a thousand casual beauties ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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