promise-breaker

"A 'maybe' protects us from being a promise-breaker," says Gerald Goodman, professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Many Powers of Maybe

If Democracy Watch loses, the court will rule that Prime Minister Harper is a dishonest promise-breaker because he failed to keep his 2006 election promise to pass a law fixing election dates, said Conacher.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: September 2009 Archives

I'll write again soon -- Med school's turned me into such a promise-breaker!

I'm done!

There he goes again, Jimmy Carter, tyrant therapist and diplomatic free-lancer in North Korea and Haiti, has a new mission - bringing peace to the Balkans -- at the behest of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader and promise-breaker extraordinaire.

Nobel Warrior?

It also minimizes the period of damage when a promise-breaker behaves badly.

Does Virginia Need A Two-Term Governor ?

But wouldst thou think, that this haughty promise-breaker could resolve as she does, absolutely and for ever to renounce me for what passed last night?

Clarissa Harlowe

‘Stop, you promise-breaker,’ shrieked he; ‘you have slipped through my hands once, but wait till I catch you again!’

The Crimson Fairy Book

Vali was forthwith seized and bound as a promise-breaker, and sent to reside in the nether regions.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7

Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice, but to speak of him as my kinsman, he’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship’s entertainment.

Act III. Scene VI. All’s Well that Ends Well

Thumbietot was very indignant to think that in this way he had been forced to become a promise-breaker.

Further Adventures of Nils