perjurer

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Recent Examples on the Web Martinez called Mejia a shameless perjurer who became a government witness only after reviewing the evidence against him and realizing he was caught dead to rights for his own crimes. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024 Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson). Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020 He’s been denounced as a perjurer by some pundits and mocked by late-night talk show hosts. oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019 Kasowitz and, more importantly, Trump himself are calling Comey a perjurer. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017 Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, has characterized Comey as a leaker, a liar, and a perjurer—explosive allegations that were subsequently echoed by the president of the United States. Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 13 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjurer
Noun
  • Rainey, who passed away in 2023, spent decades opposing Napolitano’s story and calling her a liar.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Catherine may be an adulterer and a liar, but this dude dead-dropped you lewd photos of your own wife!
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Still, our heroes are not traditional heroes but rather scoundrels and knaves and outcasts, all of whom have complex inner turmoil and compelling character arcs.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Alice begs for the knave’s freedom, putting herself in danger.
    Liesbeth Powers, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
Noun
  • It’s not lost on me that the two cheaters in the group are the ones who get killed.
    Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
  • And then — and there is no nice way to put this — there are the cheaters.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.
    Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This is not a situation where, say, an elderly person of limited means, knowledge and capacity was duped by a charlatan and there’s a viable case for unconscionability.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For a project looking to quickly establish its horror bona fides, casting Bruce Campbell in a key role is a practically a cheat code.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Consider eating beforehand or know this will be a cheat day.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel, the movie stars Ewan McGregor as a boyish fabulist and Billy Crudup as his son who, years later, tries to understand who his father really was.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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