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 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 Kasowitz and, more importantly, Trump himself are calling Comey a perjurer. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjurer
Noun
  • Through Laura’s protective eyes, this striver who has gotten her claws into Daniel is conniving, hypersexual, possibly a thief, definitely a liar.
    Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For a cold-hearted liar, Cherry is not that ingenious.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Islamic eschatology warned of a deceiver who distorts perception, blurring reality.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • 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
  • Where the, where the signal is somehow maintaining its honesty, and that cheaters cannot undermine it.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But pride comes before the fall, and Call of Duty players have had it with certain aspects of the game, from stale gameplay to cheaters to goofy Fortnite-ish skins that keep being added to its cash shop.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • No matter the party affiliation, there’ll be charlatans claiming to care, while smooth-talking their way into the homes of hard-working people who struggle.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • But the Bolts don't have enough pieces to go from pretenders to contenders.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The signing of Isak, however, might have turned Arsenal from title pretenders to genuine contenders.
    Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The Shortcut — and Its Risks For aspiring creators, reality TV feels like a cheat code.
    Amanda Marcovitch, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Travis Hunter’s fantasy football dual eligibility is a cheat code Travis Hunter could be a game-changer in IDP leagues across the various fantasy football game providers.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 29 July 2025

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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