as in libel
law
the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth
He was found guilty of perjury.
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Recent Examples of perjury
In very rare cases, a commissioner can file their own charge against an employer, but it wouldn’t be made public and would require the commissioner to provide evidence of possible discrimination under penalty of perjury, Yang said.
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Alexandra Olson and Claire Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Bryan took on the case, seeing evidence of police misconduct and perjury.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
He was found guilty in December of violating his duty as a government official by leaking a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report and perjury for lying about it under oath to a grand jury investigating the source of the leak.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Madoff was a financier who pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges related to fraud, money laundering, making false statements and perjury in 2009.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Alexandra Olson and Claire Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Bryan took on the case, seeing evidence of police misconduct and perjury.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
He was found guilty in December of violating his duty as a government official by leaking a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report and perjury for lying about it under oath to a grand jury investigating the source of the leak.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Madoff was a financier who pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges related to fraud, money laundering, making false statements and perjury in 2009.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjury
Noun
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In February 2022, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff rejected Palin's claims in a ruling issued while a jury deliberated, saying Palin had failed to show that the Times had acted out of malice, something required in libel lawsuits involving public figures.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Lipstadt became famous—and was later portrayed onscreen by Rachel Weisz—for winning a judgment in a British court against the Holocaust denier David Irving, who had sued her for libel.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Beneath the veneer of misanthropy and the din of controversy her perspective has often incited lies a more generous sensibility that was always present but is only now coming to the fore.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 May 2025
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Like Bondi, Dhillon has pushed Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But Trump has gone much further, attacking the very notion of an independent news media, one that will refute his distortions.—
Natalie Proulx,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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When those scores disappear, admissions officers must rely on metrics that are less standardized — and more vulnerable to distortion.—
Gerald Bradshaw,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2025
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Micron needs the money primarily to get the fabrication plant built and the equipment that goes in it.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
24 Apr. 2025
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Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Perjury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjury. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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