slanderer

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Noun
  • During closing arguments on Tuesday, defense attorneys tried to portray Serrano as a pathological liar whose testimony could not be trusted.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • The resolution, sponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), has backing from some of Trump’s biggest supporters in the Senate as well as those who are outspoken in their views that Putin is a liar and murderer.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
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“Slanderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slanderer. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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