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perjurious
adjective as in lying under oath
Weak matches
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
Example Sentences
Trump lawyer Christopher Kise countered that the "entire case of the attorney general relies on this perjurious witness who's lied to everyone he's even spoken to," saying they should not have to "dance around" the issue.
“The Court will not dismiss the indictment on Maxwell’s bare assertion that numerous witnesses are engaged in a perjurious conspiracy against her,” she said.
They have also charged her with lying under oath during the 2016 session, indicating that she “repeatedly provided false and perjurious statements.”
The committee said in its report that Amazon “displayed a lack of candor” in its responses, and it cited a letter in which members from both parties on the committee accused the company of being “misleading, and possibly criminally false or perjurious.”
“I respectfully suggest that the best response to Flynn’s perjury is not to respond in kind. Ordering a defendant to show cause why he should not be held in contempt based on a perjurious effort to withdraw a guilty plea is not what judges typically do.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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