perjurer
作伪证者,伪证者,作伪证的人,作假者
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per·jured, per·jur·ing.
- : to render guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
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He had a reputation for drinking and admitted that he had perjured himself during earlier testimony in New Orleans, damaging his credibility.
Another was that Wilkie perjured himself in his testimony to investigators with the inspector general’s office.
Whoever praises Luther is a worse sinner than an idolater, perjurer, or thief.
A convicted perjurer gives evidence, and has a pecuniary interest in the result.
One was instigated by a perjurer and a heretic, the other by an indentured servant, in all probability from a convict ship.
To cause loss of liberty or property by false witness was punished by the penalty the perjurer sought to bring upon another.
Of a noted liar and perjurer it was said 'He would swear that a coal porter was a canary.'