Synonyms of perjury

perjury

noun

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.

Related Words

• libel
• lie
• distortion
• fabrication
• defamation
• exaggeration
• ambiguity
• falsehood
• deceit
• mendacity
• untruth
• falsity
• fairy tale
• prevarication
• slander
• fraudulence
• half-truth
• equivocation
• fib
• fiction
• obliquity
• tale
• fable
• misrepresentation
• bluff
• falsification
• taradiddle
• pose
• whopper
• misstatement
• deceitfulness
• story
• pretense
• nonsense
• duplicity
• dishonesty
• misconception
• fallacy
• misinformation
• myth
• humbug
• canard
• jive
• misreport

Dissimilar Words

• fact
• truthfulness
• honesty
• verification
• truth
• veracity
• confirmation
• truism
• validation
• authentication
• verity
• substantiation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of perjury

The Republicans in Washington are pressuring the Department of Justice to charge the former special counsel Jack Smith with perjury. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

But the pardon wouldn’t protect him from a state prosecution or from any perjury charge that could be drummed up from his testimony now. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

Yet Paul's grounds for holding Fauci in contempt ignore that any statements Fauci made July 29 could have exposed him to accusations of perjury or other offenses outside the time period of Biden's pardon. — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Crawley was charged with second-degree hindering prosecution, offering a false instrument for filing and perjury. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026