mispromise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A false promise; A promise that is made insincerely.
verb
To make a mispromise; to promise insincerely.
Example Sentences
- "witness testified that no trickery, deceit, coercion, or fraud or mispromise had been made to him to induce representation by public officials."
- "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.""
- "In most industries with concrete tangible products, this kind of overpromise is rarely seen, but with intangible brands very serious overpromises or mispromises can be made where the brand promise collides with the reality of the actual service."
- "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."
- "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."
- "I do not say or infer that Mr. Javits mispromised anything. I simply state that the subsidiary's progress on its three potential products, as reported in the annual report, dated 1 September 1969, suggests it was highly unlikely that Mr. Javits could have made a good faith promise on 14 October 1968 and, in particular, on 5 March 1969 that the subsidiary would be in production on all three of its alleged potential products in the Spring of 1969."