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
  • The world is full of bad actors—cheats, liars, tyrants, sickos—who are, ultimately, mere human beings; at least, this was how rationality would have it.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There were no suggestions that good family friends were liars or backstabbers, no angry exchanges between a man’s wife and the same man’s sister.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The film tells the true and twisted tale of a deceiver of land and folk, who, defying her birth as a woman, comported herself as a man and committed many a wicked deed.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Then, from there, a big question is how cheaters can be wrangled.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • None of this is technically aboveboard, but these dirty little cheaters are the entire heart and soul of this show right now.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
    Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • First up was Ben Shapiro, who described Tucker Carlson and others as grifters and charlatans, guilty of misleading their audiences with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
    Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, there is also plenty of Trump flattery along with paeans to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cockamamie make-America-sick-again agenda, as one medical charlatan nods to another.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The Cult of the Beaver has to fend off pretenders.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement Iranians deserve better than the Pahlavi pretender.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Others might feel the author cheats here, leaving it up to the reader to decide.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.
    John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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