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
  • In a pre-dawn online news conference, an angry Sara Duterte accused Mr. Marcos of incompetence as a president and of being a liar, along with his wife and the House speaker in expletives-laden remarks.
    Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Furious, Duterte held an online press conference Saturday and accused Marcos of incompetence as president and of being a liar, along with his wife and the House speaker, throwing several expletives at them in her remarks.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 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
  • The alleged cheater in this case hasn’t been seen since, and Berkey wonders if he was banned from this and possibly other casinos.
    Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Be proactive; weakness will attract scammers, liars and cheaters.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 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
  • Tartuffe, a charismatic charlatan, insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy family, setting off a chain reaction of disruption and pandemonium.
    Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But in Wicked, he's elevated to an even more sinister place — not merely a charlatan, but a fraud who has seized power and wants to use the magic of others to create a totalitarian world that answers to his every whim.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In Saturday's game at Arizona (1:30 p.m., FOX) ASU has the chance to do something it's done only once before this century: go undefeated in November, the month in which good teams separate themselves from early-season pretenders.
    Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • And Justin Fields’ legs are like a cheat code near the goal line.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Theresa May is selling out the UK to a serial liar and a cheat.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The House expelled the fabulist George Santos for a fabric of falsehoods, but his lies put no one’s life at risk.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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