welsher

Example Sentences

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He counters that she welshed on promises to end the tax on electricity bills and to make Jamaicans prosperous enough to eat ox tail and curried goat.

From Economist • Feb. 18, 2016

The North Vietnamese version is that the U.S. welshed on other equally vital parts of the agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Otis was cleared by the Securities & Exchange Commission of six-year-old charges that it welshed on a $10 million deal to help float stock for Kaiser-Frazer Corp.

From Time Magazine Archive

They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books.

From Time Magazine Archive

My eye and brain had welshed on me.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck