Sentence example with the word 'perjury'

perjury

artfulness, craftiness, disingenuousness, exaggeration, falseheartedness, forswearing, intrigue, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, uncandidness, unsincereness

Definition n. criminal offense of making false statements under oath

Last update: October 31, 2015


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A better way to make sure people tell the truth in court is to make perjury the most serious of crimes.   [noun]

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An account of the espionage and perjury case that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Alger Hiss.   [noun]

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"Do you wish to turn a thoughtless act into a crime by adding the guilt of perjury."   [noun]

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Death is the penalty of perjury.   [noun]

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This would have made him unpopular now, when perjury means popularity.   [noun]

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Several years later, as one of the detective staff of District Attorney Jerome, he committed perjury, was convicted, and sent to Sing Sing for a year.   [noun]

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He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.   [noun]

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Howard's perjury is clear from other witnesses, but the evidence was accepted.   [Please select]

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The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury were arbitrary.   [Please select]

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Falsehood and perjury had preceded her testimony; but before her testimony, falsehood was scattered like chaff.   [Please select]

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"That Heinie and his boys have all committed perjury; charge them with it."   [Please select]

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