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
  • Count My Lies centers on compulsive liar Sloane Caraway, who bluffs her way into a job as a nanny for a gorgeous and charismatic couple, Violet and Jay Lockhart.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
  • One thing for sure is that Doute feels vindicated after The Valley Season 1 played out and she was accused of being a liar.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 14 Apr. 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
  • In previous seasons, he was known to be a serial cheater and womanizer.
    Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Surely, this shows the United States to be the cheater in these two relationships.
    Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • Death at the hands of charlatans is not an inspiring storyline, which means publishers and film studios studiously avoid it.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • No, the danger is what those charlatans exploit, namely our vulnerability to the narrative of natural healing, the irresistible allure of conquering cancer with a simple, intuitive approach that lies entirely within our power, no chemo or surgery required.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The speed with which this group develops chemistry and finds that star could determine where the Crimson Tide fall on the spectrum between contender and pretender.
    CJ Moore, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Carter noted that City Hall office workers will return to their cubicles three days per week as of April 1. Related Articles Contenders or pretenders?
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.
    Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
  • In addition, in the Fall of 2024 the IRS-CI increased its efforts against wealthy tax cheats with actions against 1,600 taxpayers earning more than a million dollars a year which by July of 2024 had already brought in $1 billion in collections.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 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 3 May. 2025.

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