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Old 19-Dec-2007, 16:57
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Question one word for many

i'd want to know wat we call "a person who never keeps his promises".. i tried searching it out over the net, but couldn't find it anywhere..!
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a ne'er-do-well (probably too nice still)?
a good-for-nothing

sry,I do realize now you were asking for ONE word.

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i'd want to know wat we call "a person who never keeps his promises".. i tried searching it out over the net, but couldn't find it anywhere..!
You can call that person a promise breaker. Actually you can find some references to promise-breaker on the net, but I don't think that the one-word hyphenated form is widely accepted.

You can call such a person unreliable, but of course the meaning is not a specific as promise breaker is.
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Or in older literary texts you can have 'an oath breaker'.
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