as in libels
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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What makes this town’s culinary history so unique lies within its deep ties to the university.
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Prosecutors argued Murdaugh killed his wife and son to distract from his crumbling legal and financial world as years of thefts and lies were closing in on him.
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Not the fun stuff – waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes – but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
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Timing, adjustments and sometimes outright manipulation can create distortions that do not survive a quality-of-earnings review.
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But the fastest swimming speed claims are almost certainly indefensible exaggerations.
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Historians, strategists, and analysts are brought in to give some context, particularly for the question of how much these impressions influence voters — do these performances merge with their targets’ public personas, turning comic exaggerations into liabilities?
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While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
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Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down.
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