perjurer

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Recent Examples of perjurer Martinez called Mejia a shameless perjurer who became a government witness only after reviewing the evidence against him and realizing he was caught dead to rights for his own crimes. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024 Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson). Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020 He’s been denounced as a perjurer by some pundits and mocked by late-night talk show hosts. oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019 Kasowitz and, more importantly, Trump himself are calling Comey a perjurer. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017 Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, has characterized Comey as a leaker, a liar, and a perjurer—explosive allegations that were subsequently echoed by the president of the United States. Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 13 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjurer
Noun
  • But if his statement is false, then not all Cretans are liars, which therefore means that his statement could be true.
    Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The first victim came forward in 2018, but she was called a liar by the administration at El Crystal and recanted, prosecutors said.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And as part of this there needs to be a tally of those cheaters without E-ZPass who are illegally obscuring or hiding their license plates.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • These modules—there are at least five of them—involve feelings like empathy for the vulnerable, resentment of cheaters, respect for authority, regard for sanctity, and anger at betrayal.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • There was too much history for anyone to dismantle, let alone a charlatan like Hitler.
    Luke Berryman, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Other contributor: Conor O’Neill (Top photo: Adam Davy/PA Images via Getty Images) Comments W Will S. · 2h 34m ago Because Maresca is a one trick pony charlatan and half of Chelsea’s first team players are more interested in Snapchat & Twitter.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The bot will see you now: Therapists in the U.S. are getting ready for a battle with A.I. pretenders.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Without a bit more heart and soul, the spinoff is just a pretender in a nicely tailored suit.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Attrition is a cheat code for thinning the federal workforce.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
  • These formulas cleanse the scalp of buildup (a major cause of flat hair, by the way) while plumping strands with conditioning ingredients like hydrating vitamin E and hyaluronic acid, essentially acting as cheat codes for fuller hair straight out of the 90s.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.
    Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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