Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
renege .
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Examples
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You cannot sit up there, tout yourself as ‘change’ and ‘different’ and ‘humane’ and ‘for the people’, making vital promises […], then reneg on those promises when it gets icky for you.
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B. Obama planned the oil rig disaster, hiring left wing radical hippy environmentalists to use their hippy nature powers to call the dolphins to bring them out to the oil rig so they could blow it up and Obama could take advantage of a crisis and reneg on his stated off shore drilling policies ... eventually banning it completely; OR
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This “Why” is the reason you get out of bed at 4 am before the rest of the house wakes, you reneg on going out to the pub on Friday night in order to write, you tape your favourite TV programs to watch later or wait an extra week to go to the movies to see the new movie.
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If Lynch ever wants to be more than a governor all he has to do is reneg and appoint a democrat.
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The way out would be to just reneg on the commitments.
Talk Of Radical Switzerland FX Plans Shows How It's Trapped Michael Casey 2011
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You have to deal with some of the most unsavory people in the world who steal, bribe, reneg, and lie to you, all-the-while demanding signature bonuses, sometimes upward of $70 million.
Michael Martin: Big Oil Has Replaced Big Tobacco in the Bulls Eye of America's Vitriol 2010
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You have to deal with some of the most unsavory people in the world who steal, bribe, reneg, and lie to you all-the-while demanding signature bonuses, sometimes upward of $70 million.
Michael Martin: Big Oil Has Replaced Big Tobacco In The Bulls Eye of America's Vitriol 2010
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Don't be surprised if during a run on precious metals that Scotia will also reneg.
Silver Certificates and failure to redeem. Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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Why is Adm. Allen and the US government letting BP reneg on its commitment to transparency?
Robert L. Cavnar: BP ROV Video of Leaking Wellhead Cut Off for Third Day - Why? 2010
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Why is Adm. Allen and the US government letting BP reneg on its commitment to transparency?
Robert L. Cavnar: BP ROV Video of Leaking Wellhead Cut Off for Third Day - Why? 2010
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