breach of promise as a noun: - 1
breach of promise
noun
1 breach of promise
Failure to keep a promise (of marriage).
Roget 940:
improbity†;
dishonesty,
dishonor;
deviation from rectitude;
disgrace
etc.
(disrepute)
874;
fraud
etc.
(deception)
545;
lying
etc.
544;
bad faith,
Punic faith;
mala fides [Lat.],
Punica fides [Lat.];
infidelity;
faithlessness
etc.
adj.;
Judas kiss,
betrayal.
breach of promise,
breach of trust,
breach of faith;
prodition†,
disloyalty,
treason,
high treason;
apostasy
etc.
(tergiversation)
607;
nonobservance
etc.
773.
shabbiness
etc.
adj.;
villainy,
villany†;
baseness
etc.
adj.;
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude,
moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling.
perfidy;
perfidiousness
etc.
adj.;
treachery,
double dealing;
unfairness
etc.
adj.;
knavery,
roguery,
rascality,
foul play;
jobbing,
jobbery;
graft,
bribery;
venality,
nepotism;
corruption,
job,
shuffle,
fishy transaction;
barratry,
sharp practice,
heads I win tails you lose;
mouth honor
etc.
(flattery)
933.
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