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perjurer

/pur-jer/US // ˈpɜr dʒər //UK // (ˈpɜːdʒə) //

作伪证者,伪证者,作伪证的人,作假者

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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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Examples

  • 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.'