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perjury

/pur-juh-ree/US // ˈpɜr dʒə ri //UK // (ˈpɜːdʒərɪ) //

伪证,伪证罪,伪证行为,作伪证

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural per·ju·ries.Law.

    • : the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.

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Examples

  • In 2019, the board recommended police agencies drop a requirement that people identify themselves and sign their complaints under penalty of perjury, which has a chilling effect.

  • These were sworn testimonials of what people saw, statements subject to perjury.

  • For Murphy, Nielsen’s untruths in front of Congress amounted to potential perjury — a criminal charge.

  • He demanded the journalists “immediately correct the record” and included two depositions attesting under penalty of perjury that the version of the document NBC 7 published was doctored.

  • San Diego’s district attorney could also choose to press charges that might be related to safeguarding public funds or perjury.

  • The charges included corruption, perjury, bid-fixing and fraud.

  • Then, after the headlines came out, the sources recanted, and they have since been convicted (in Syrian courts) of perjury.

  • The woman was acquitted of perjury, which could have landed the mother of three 15 years in jail.

  • He was convicted of perjury, served 30 days, and went back to a swashbuckling career in contraband.

  • Beaird seemed to be either admitting perjury or committing it.

  • He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

  • So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

  • This unheard-of despotism, this horrible political perjury, was certainly not merited by the good and generous Brazil.

  • This thing called Secession originated in falsehood, theft and perjury.

  • They were subject to a single will; moved often by perjury, and sometimes by passion.