promiser
- a word derived from promise.
Example Sentences
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Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides this, the promise to "preserve mysteries inviolate," made before they have been made known to the promiser, is condemned by sound morality.
From Secret Societies by MacDill, David
He's a rash promiser, Mr. Robert is; but a shifty proposition when you try to push a programme on him, for the first thing you know he's slid from under.
From On With Torchy by Lincoln, Foster
A time of disaster on the part of the promiser seems not to add much to the dignity of his person or to the effect of his offers.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
