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perjury

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of perjury

law the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth

He was found guilty of perjury.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of perjury

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of perjury

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

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