SWORN Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of sworn

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verb

past participle of swear

as in cursed

to use offensive or indecent language no one is allowed to swear in this house

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as in vowed

to make a solemn declaration of intent swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

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as in testified

to make a solemn declaration under oath for the purpose of establishing a fact the sworn statement of the witness was presented as evidence

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Adjective

Officers held an emotional sendoff for the employees, women who worked in the records department in non-sworn positions. — Veronica MacIas, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 Athens joins Georgia towns navigating Flock On Friday, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department announced the termination of Nick Barker, the Criminal Intelligence Analyst Supervisor and a non-sworn civilian employee for misusing Flock technology. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Gearhart now works as a non-sworn detention deputy at the Denver Contract Detention Facility, also known as the Aurora ICE Processing Center, which is operated by The Geo Group. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 20 May 2026 Gillum then returned to the Chapel Hill police department as a non-sworn employee before leaving for another job by the end of that year, Alex Carrasquillo, communications manager for the Town of Chapel Hill, told CNN. — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026 Gillum returned to the Chapel Hill Police Department as a non-sworn employee in 2024 before leaving later that year. — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 State law requires public schools to have either a law enforcement officer or a non-sworn armed guardian. — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 At the time, Samuel Machado was a lieutenant with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office and his wife, Tammy Machado, was a non-sworn administrative employee. — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026 And yet, despite that, there had been the weight gain, just enough for the zipper on the Balenciaga to become her sworn enemy. — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

Verb

The office of attorney general is designed to be an independent advocate for Florida residents, sworn to uphold the state laws and constitution. — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026 All year, these Democrats have sworn that they are focused on helping to win races in a midterm election that their party describes as existential. — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Those copious field reports, sworn affidavits, and telegrams signed, alarmingly, HOOVER, would fascinate, enrage, and unmoor me. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 Time to get out of her vehicle and meet the people she’s sworn to protect. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026 After all, Apple and Google are sworn frenemies, dragging each other in the press while simultaneously holding multi-billion-dollar entanglements behind the scenes. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026 The pair are generational talents in the world of professional hockey and sworn on-ice rivals, who meet as teenagers. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 Weeks later, after launching her mayoral campaign, Raman went on NBC4 and declared that city leaders need to maintain the size of the LAPD and keep sworn staffing from getting smaller. — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Among the minimum qualifications for the job are at least 15 years of service in law enforcement and 5–7 years in leadership positions at a large department with 1,000 or more sworn law enforcement officers. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sworn

Adjective

But there's no confirmed international launch either, so I wouldn't get carried away just yet.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026
The confirmed case inside an elementary school has some Harford County residents concerned about the presence of wildlife in the community.

— Ashley Paul, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of confirmed

Verb

One social media post suggested Buckeyes staff members may have cursed at Riley’s wife and children, triggering the coach’s reaction directed toward Bjork.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
The family had a different version of the incident, alleging that Lawhorn repeatedly cursed at Rusher.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of cursed

Verb

Raman, who took credit for a major reduction in encampments in her own Hollywood Hills district, vowed to cut street homelessness in half citywide by summer 2028 and completely by the end of her first four-year term.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Bailey vowed to suspend the state’s gas tax increase by executive order, though Illinois governors don’t have the power.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of vowed

Verb

Palacios testified that Désir, along with Ashkard Pierre, another close associate of Sanon, took him and the other former soldiers from a hotel to a mountaintop house that would serve as the staging ground for the attack.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
The Nuremberg women testified, prosecuted, wrote, translated and painted.

— Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of testified

Adjective

However, some executives remain determined to maintain a physical presence, believing that showing up during a crisis could give them a competitive advantage.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026
That person was later determined to be dead, according to Nowels.

— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of determined

Verb

Fusion energy has long promised virtually limitless, low-carbon power by mimicking the physical reactions that fuel the Sun.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Why were taxpayers paying consultants to commute when their firms had promised to staff the project locally?

— Julie Watts, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of promised

Adjective

The Beach Boys’ touring machine has been going nearly nonstop for the last 65 or so years, as Stamos and Christian Love noted in the intro, driven by Mike as one of pop music’s most inveterate and even seemingly compulsive tourers.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
An inveterate performer, Carvey gave off a sense of perpetual people-pleasing, and the results were undeniably popular and hilarious, as the laughs echoed throughout his sketches.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of inveterate

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