perjure
Example Sentences
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Jones on Tuesday called Bellis a tyrant and said she would be forcing him to perjure himself and say “that I’m guilty and to say that I’m a liar.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022
“If the president were to perjure himself, tamper with witness testimony or corruptly destroy evidence, then such actions would violate well-established law,” the memo stated.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022
The fact that prosecutors will offer immunity could mean that they believe she did not perjure herself and that Peterson’s conviction will stand, Rahmani said.
From Fox News • Feb. 8, 2022
And she said it was "utterly absurd" to suggest that nine women "could be persuaded to lie to the police, to perjure themselves in court".
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2021
Holinshed relates how Wolsey “so punished a perjure with open punishment and open paper-wearing that in his time it was disused.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.