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perjury

[pur-juh-ree] / ˈpɜr dʒə ri /


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In 2000, Archer was charged with perjury and perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some of this was surely deliberate, to protect himself against perjury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

This was when Schmitt, believing he was on the verge of a slam dunk, accused Smith of perjury.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Though he lost his first attempt in 1986, Jones won their rematch two years later after Swindall had been indicted for perjury in relation to a money-laundering scheme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Perl was eventually tried and cleared of the espionage charges, but he was convicted of perjury for lying about his association with the Rosenbergs.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

This, Denery points out, gave liars some flexibility: They could perhaps justify their perjuries with a crop of favorable outcomes—not just for their neighbors, but for themselves too.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2015

The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ruffian, with his fierce appetites and Satanic pride, his mistresses and his perjuries, his hard impudence and insulting sarcasms, she knows only verbally, so to speak.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

Then he describes Ephesian life in terms of fierce contempt, their lusts natural and unnatural, their frauds, their wars of words, their legal contentiousness, their faithlessness and perjuries, their robberies of temples.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore




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