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
  • At every turn, the voices call her a liar and out of her mind.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The defense challenged Lemmons, asking if putting out a theory that does not pan out makes someone a liar.
    Jenna Sundel, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Still, our heroes are not traditional heroes but rather scoundrels and knaves and outcasts, all of whom have complex inner turmoil and compelling character arcs.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Alice begs for the knave’s freedom, putting herself in danger.
    Liesbeth Powers, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
Noun
  • Their relatively simple radio attack would allow cheaters or vandals to spoof signals from as far as 30 feet away that trigger a target bike to unexpectedly shift gears or to jam its shifters and lock the bike into the wrong gear.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
  • It’s not lost on me that the two cheaters in the group are the ones who get killed.
    Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
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
  • But in Wicked, he's elevated to an even more sinister place — not merely a charlatan, but a fraud who has seized power and wants to use the magic of others to create a totalitarian world that answers to his every whim.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
Noun
  • Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Democrats propose to reap new revenue by raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, and by going after wealthy tax cheats.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, South Beach, fat camps, shakes, liquid diets, low carb, high fiber, zero fat, paleo, diet pills, four grapefruits a day, seven micro meals a day, six days of deprivation followed by one glorious cheat day....
    Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel, the movie stars Ewan McGregor as a boyish fabulist and Billy Crudup as his son who, years later, tries to understand who his father really was.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024

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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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