perjury

It says "the prolific storyteller, once jailed for perjury, had only just published his final book".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

It was unheard of to indict someone for perjury without any investigation or compelling evidence to establish that a false statement had been made.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was June, and he could not get away without making himself guilty of all manner of perjuries; but in August he would certainly take Littlebath on his way to Scotland.

From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

Tertullian in his De Baptismo says that they were promised in consequence "regeneration and the pardon of all their perjuries."

From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot