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(noun) a long parley usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication / (noun) conference discussion / (noun) idle talk / (noun) misleading or beguiling speech / (verb) to talk profusely or idly / (verb) parley / (verb) to use palaver to; cajole

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Given that the purpose of going through the palaver of re-creating a lost currency is to devalue it vis-a-vis the currency in people's hip pockets, leaving the euro is tantamount to announcing a major devaluation a year before it happens.

cool word

—p.142 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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7 years, 3 months ago


Hrabal suggested another word for his works: pábení, Englished by the writer Josef Škvorecký as “palavering,” meaning “idle chatter” or “flattering babble,” here intended to characterize looping, loopy conversation

—p.284 Speak Easy: On Bohumil Hrabal (282) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago


No palaver about compromise.

—p.166 AM I A MONSTER? (160) by Claire Dederer
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1 year ago


an excuse for a sex palaver

—p.96 The Century of Spin (92) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago


all that stupid palaver about "untapped potential"

—p.91 Specially Marked Packages (91) by Christopher Sorrentino
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7 years, 2 months ago


a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers

—p.133 Russian Portraits (127) missing author
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1 year, 3 months ago


After all that palaver about Danty and the sunset, the old ratbag was asking a thousand quid

—p.46 by Shirley Hazzard
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3 months, 4 weeks ago