perjurious

Examples of perjurious in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web None of the justices’ remarks during those hearings actually appear to be perjurious. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 June 2022 Maldonado ruled last month that a special prosecutor should investigate whether any prosecutors, past or present, engaged in criminal conduct — not just the allegedly perjurious former assistant state’s attorney, Nick Trutenko. Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2021 The most recent involves a cop killing, a wrongful conviction and an allegedly perjurious prosecutor. Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021 The state’s attorney claimed that it had been concocted by the Skakel family and founded on the perjurious testimony of the petitioner’s alibi witnesses. Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2018 The prosecutor can cross-examine the perjurious defendant or present evidence to the contrary. Richard A. Posner, Slate Magazine, 25 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjurious
Adjective
  • Dimon has not endorsed a candidate Despite erroneous claims from the Trump camp that Dimon—a Harvard Business School grad—has endorsed the Republican candidate, the JPMorgan CEO has deliberately avoided expressing any opinion on either side thus far.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • One key area leading to patient dissatisfaction is erroneous patient billing—those times when patients get surprisingly large bills that are confusing and may seem like a mistake.
    Alex Zekoff, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Ramsey also said rhetoric that Trump is a racist rings untrue.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • But the vast majority of them were found to be untrue.
    Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.
    Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • And why not seek the truth, to give order and organization to a chaotic and fallacious narrative and investigative material?
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • The perpetrators would acquire the vehicles via hire-purchase agreements, air fright them to Singapore with false papers and then ship them to Thailand.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The movie sets the stage nicely, and Neeson doesn‘t make a false move.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Perjurious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurious. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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