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mispromise

mispromise noun: a false promise; A promise that is made insincerely.

Noun

mispromise (plural mispromises)

  1. A false promise; A promise that is made insincerely.
    • witness testified that no trickery, deceit, coercion, or fraud or mispromise had been made to him to induce representation by public officials.1994, McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated, page 465
    • Back then, any time he spent on one project he stole from another. That was the cause of what he calls his "one flagrant mispromise."1999, Tracy Kidder, House

Verb

mispromise (third-person singular simple present mispromises, present participle mispromising, simple past and past participle mispromised)

  1. To make a mispromise; to promise insincerely.
    • In your language be simple and clear as you can, Let no sort of deception e'er enter your plan; Never threaten with objects terrific and vain, Nor mislead or mispromise compliance to gain.1842, anonymous author, “Hints In Rhyme for the Nursery”, in The Servants' magazine, or Female domestics' instructor, page 117
    • Therefore the Association must cease absolutely to mispresent or miscall or mispromise; the longer it delays so doing, the more difficulty it adds to its task.1898 February 24, Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Richard Salter Storrs, “Insurance: The Path of Safety”, in The Independent, volume 50, page 23

Forms of mispromise

Noun
pluralmispromises
Verb
third-person singular presentmispromises
present participlemispromising
past participlemispromised
pastmispromised

Origin of mispromise

From mis- + promise.

Questions about mispromise

What does mispromise mean?
Mispromise means a false promise; A promise that is made insincerely.
What part of speech is mispromise?
Mispromise can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mispromise?
The plural of mispromise is mispromises.

Words near mispromise in the dictionary

  1. misprojected
  2. misprojecting
  3. misprojection
  4. misprojections
  5. misprojects
  6. mispromise
  7. mispromised
  8. mispromises
  9. mispromising
  10. mispromote
  11. mispromoted

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