as in libel
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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Recent Examples of perjury
He was found guilty in December of violating his duty as a government official by leaking a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report and perjury for lying about it under oath to a grand jury investigating the source of the leak.
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Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Madoff was a financier who pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges related to fraud, money laundering, making false statements and perjury in 2009.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Jon Burge, who was convicted in federal court of perjury and obstruction of justice.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
The rules weren’t impossible to circumvent, but doing so took time, money, and perhaps mild perjury.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Madoff was a financier who pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges related to fraud, money laundering, making false statements and perjury in 2009.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Jon Burge, who was convicted in federal court of perjury and obstruction of justice.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
The rules weren’t impossible to circumvent, but doing so took time, money, and perhaps mild perjury.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjury
Noun
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Lipstadt became famous—and was later portrayed onscreen by Rachel Weisz—for winning a judgment in a British court against the Holocaust denier David Irving, who had sued her for libel.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2025
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In February 2022, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff rejected Palin's claims in a ruling issued while a jury deliberated, saying Palin had failed to show that the Times had acted out of malice, something required in libel lawsuits involving public figures.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Beneath the veneer of misanthropy and the din of controversy her perspective has often incited lies a more generous sensibility that was always present but is only now coming to the fore.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 May 2025
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Like Bondi, Dhillon has pushed Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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But Trump has gone much further, attacking the very notion of an independent news media, one that will refute his distortions.—
Natalie Proulx,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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When those scores disappear, admissions officers must rely on metrics that are less standardized — and more vulnerable to distortion.—
Gerald Bradshaw,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2025
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Once a political unknown, Santos gained national notoriety for his fabrications and legal troubles.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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From the bottom to the top, the AI business stack includes companies starting from chip design and fabrication/foundry to data centers, hyperscalers and product companies, each built on top of the other for its survival.—
Sajal Singh,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Perjury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjury. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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