perjurer

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Recent Examples of perjurer 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
  • But there’s little here that justifies spending six long episodes with a pathological liar or convinces you that the show has anything new to say about social media.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The song calls Drake a liar, along with accusing the 37-year-old of liking underage girls.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Take it from someone who was married to a serial cheater.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Both of them were even accused of siding with the cheater because they’d both been accused of cheating themselves, so to now hear Bronwyn backtracking and granting Todd far more grace than either of them did to begin with must feel strange.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
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
  • One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The good, sincere members would flourish and the charlatans, the folks who over-promise to their constituents, would not.
    Gary Franks, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • John Elway was considered a postseason pretender when his Denver Broncos were annihilated in three Super Bowls over a four-year stretch, then finished his career by snagging the franchise’s first two championship rings.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Every decision carries weight, and in a league where the line between contender and pretender is razor-thin, there’s little room for error.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Chiefs, who have mastered the art of everything from the improbable comeback win to defying the odds and the injuries that seem insurmountable en route to a third straight Super Bowl, might have unlocked the cheat code on stopping the tush push.
    Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • While there’s no cheat code for outsmarting mother nature—shy of being weather-worn and hearty like New Englanders, which is not necessarily something that can be taught—there are ways to navigate it sartorially, and still look good.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.
    Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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