vain promise

After a while Lucienne got tired of all vain promises and went her own way.

And Richard makes vain promises to nearly everyone.

You lacked the courage to be loyal and the wisdom to ignore the vain promises of others.

Bell had not made any vain promises.

What of the vain promises that had been made to them that God would feed them as He fed the birds!

Studs is beginning to sense his own weakness and his own mortality, and continually makes vain promises to change his ways.

Einhard explains: “When Charles was at war with the Huns, and was wintering in Bavaria, this Pepin shammed sickness, and plotted against his father in company with some of the leading Franks, who seduced him with vain promises of the royal authority."