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
  • The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar.
    Julia Bonavita , David Spunt, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • So, for many in the conservative Twitterverse, one-time heroes Bondi, Patel and Bongino are now sellouts and liars.
    Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Instead of just trying to catch cheaters in the act with blood or urine tests, the biological passport program takes regular tests from athletes in order to establish their personal normal values.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 25 July 2025
  • Since returning to office in January, Trump has called the United States’ closest allies cheaters and freeloaders.
    MARGARET MACMILLAN, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 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
  • The gloomiest of the adverse reactions is that charlatans will insidiously attempt to convince others that AGI is indeed supernatural.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • 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
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
  • There’s a pervasive perception that AI is used by lazy people or those who lack skills or cheat, not by hard-working overachievers.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 16 July 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
Noun
  • Ari Ben Menashe, a onetime Israeli operative whom Israeli and American officials have said is a fabulist who vastly exaggerates and fabricates, claims to have run Epstein as an asset.
    Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 July 2025

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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